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Plato and the Tyrant,

a new book from James Rom,

Professor James Rom, at Bard College.

The fall of Greece's greatest dynasty and the making of a philosophic masterpiece,

that would be the Republic.

I had read the Republic as a student and assumed that it came out of the imagination of one man named Plato.

Turns out, there's reason to believe it was based upon visits to Sicily,

Syracuse, Sicily especially. The last time I was in Syracuse, I was with the British Army

clawing its way up the coastline under the guidance and the leadership of the British Army,

while Patton made an end run north of the island and then came in from the west.

That was the last time I was in Sicily, and it was desperate.

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