The Republic · Plato · Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Persons of the Dialogue
Persons of the Dialogue
Socrates, who is the narrator.
Glaucon.
Adeimantus.
Polemarchus.
Cephalus.
Thrasymachus.
Cleitophon.
And others who are mute auditors.
The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the Timaeus.
Plato · Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Digital source: Project Gutenberg, ebook 1497. This reading text follows the edition used in our interactive reader.
Includes the dialogue’s cast and all ten books in Benjamin Jowett’s translation. Jowett’s introductory essay and analysis are outside this reading text.