Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

Author/Contributor(s):	Romm, James
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	08/18/2026
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Excellent.... A deft and engaging work of history, philosophy and biography.... A kind of intellectual thriller." --Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post

From an eminent historian and classicist, an incisive portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Republic, were tested by violent events in the most powerful Greek city of the era.