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com. Please gamble responsibly. This is John Batchel, speaking with Professor James Rom, his new book

Plato and the Tyrant, the story of making of the book Republic

on the basis of what Plato learned with three visits to the most powerful state in the

West of the Hellenistic world, Syracuse. This is 4th century BCE, ruled by a family of

Dionysians, Dioniannesia the elder,

who becomes the pretender who rises to take control of a very powerful city,

Syracuse on the coast of Sicily,

big fleet, big army, conquering in all directions,

including chewing its way up the boot of Italy,

threatening everyone, including Athens,

and Carthet.

But Dionysius I succeeded after perhaps drinking himself to death by his son Dionysius II.

And therein lies the drama that Plato gets involved in.

Right now, James is just speaking to the facts of Syracuse and the power of it, the island.

Off the peninsula that can be walled off from the main city and became the fortress that Dionysius I first and then the second held against all comers.

Here's James Rom, Plato and the Tyrant, the story of the making of the republic,

the story of Plato getting down from his esteemed position in the academy in Athens

and mixing it up as a reporter might, a long-riding reporter.

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