Plato's Republic: Introduction and Analysis, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 13 July 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Let's return to the musings of Victorian classicist Benjamin Jowett, his analysis of Plato's Republic, and a lot of sleepy Socratic opinions about the inappropriateness of flutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:09.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you |
| 0:17.4 | get some sleep. |
| 0:20.0 | So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go. |
| 0:37.0 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to Emily |
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| 1:07.0 | description. Now let's get to the reading. |
| 1:17.0 | Tonight, we're continuing with a classic, The Republic of Plato, |
| 1:20.0 | translated into English with Introduction, Analysis, Marginal Analysis, and Index by Benjamin |
| 1:29.6 | Jowett, MA. Master of Balliol College, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of |
| 1:38.7 | Oxford, Doctor of Theology of the University of Leiden. |
| 1:44.8 | Published in three volumes, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1888. Let's pick up where we left off in the introduction and analysis and |
| 1:58.8 | Socrates description of the perfect society. |
| 2:05.0 | Here follows a rustic picture of their way of life. |
| 2:10.0 | They spend their days in houses which they have built for themselves. |
| 2:16.0 | They make their own clothes and produce their own corn and wine. |
| 2:22.0 | Their principal food is meal and flour and they drink in moderation. |
| 2:31.1 | They live on the best of terms with each other and take care not to have too many children. |
| 2:38.0 | But, said Glaukin interposing, are they not to have a relish? |
| 2:45.0 | Certainly they will have salt and olives and cheese, vegetables and fruits, and chestnuts to roasted the fire. |
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