Dialogues
Dialogue, so it genuinely works as audio: Socrates asks what justice is and nobody escapes for ten books.
- Listening time
- about 128 h 48 min
- Length
- 1,197,878 words
- First published
- c. 375 BC
- Public domain
- the author died in 1893
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 6.7 MB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Thinking It Through
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How it begins.
I went down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston, that I might offer up my prayers to the goddess;150 and also because I wanted to see in what manner they would celebrate the festival, which was a new thing. I was delighted with the procession of the inhabitants; but that of the Thracians was equally, if not more, beautiful.
Dialogues · Plato · c. 375 BC
- LilyStandardBritish · female · the free engine0:17
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On the same shelf: Thinking It Through
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