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Plato's Political Philosophy: Books

NSA - General Plato Books

The Cambridge Companion to Plato by Richard Kraut (Editor)
ISBN: 0521436109
Publication Date: 1992-10-30
Plato by Bernard Arthur Owen Williams
ISBN: 0415923956
Publication Date: 1999-07-29
The Philosophy of Plato
Plato by Robert W. Hall
ISBN: 0043201466
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Therapeia: Plato's conception of philosophy
What Plato Said
The Wisdom of Plato: An Attempt at an Outline
Jordan organizes Plato's work to show that even though Plato did not set out to create a coherent philosophy, he certainly did so as he worked out his ideas over time.
Interpretations of Plato: A Swarthmore Symposium

For Other Sources..

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NSA - General Background on the Field

A Student's Guide to Political Philosophy by Harvey C. Mansfield
ISBN: 1882926439
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
What Is Political Philosophy? by Leo Strauss
ISBN: 0837168023
Publication Date: 1973-08-22
Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy by Routledge Staff; Edward Craig (Editor)
ISBN: 0415223644
Publication Date: 1999-12-28

NSA - Plato's Political Philosophy

Plato's Republic by Gerasimos Santas (Editor)
ISBN: 9781405115643
Publication Date: 2006-01-23
Plato and the Republic by Nickolas Pappas
ISBN: 0415299977
Publication Date: 2003-08-04
The Cambridge Companion to Plato's Republic by G. R. F. Ferrari (Editor)
ISBN: 052154842X
Publication Date: 2007-06-18
An Introduction to Plato's Republic by Julia Annas
ISBN: 0198274297
Publication Date: 1981-06-18
A Companion to Plato's Republic by Nicholas P. White
ISBN: 9780915144921
Publication Date: 1979-05-01
A Guide to Plato's Republic by Daryl H. Rice
ISBN: 9780195112849
Publication Date: 1997-09-11
The City and Man
Tyranny and Freedom by Lynchburg College Faculty Staff (Editor)
ISBN: 0819124672
Publication Date: 1982-05-21
Political Thought from Plato to the Present
Women and the Ideal Society: Plato's Republic and Modern Myths of Gender by Natalie H. Bluestone
ISBN: 0870235818
Publication Date: 1987-12-01