Claudia Baracchi. Of Myth, Life and War in Plato's Republic.(Book review) From: Utopian Studies | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Papalas, Anthony J. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Claudia Baracchi. Of Myth, Life and War in Plato's Republic. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2002. 264 pp. $24.95

Plato's Republic, written ca. 340 BC, is the seminal treatise for Utopian thought. There were earlier works on the nature of an ideal society, however. Several of Aristophanes' plays and the treatise of Phaleas of Chalcedon deal with the equality of the sexes, democratizing property and education, and the nationalization of the agricultural and manufacturing sectors...

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