Thoughts on "The Piraeus"

Exploring the metaphorical and subtextual meanings of the first line of Plato's Republic

The genre of Plato’s Republic is not as clean cut as we might think it to be. Though Socrates was surely a real person, Most (if not all) of the dialogues were fictionalized in some way. We can both validate his existence and doubt Plato’s portrayal of him because of the contemporary account of Xenophon, his dialogues (through his trustworthiness as a s…