1. The protreptic rhetoric of the Republic / Harvey Yunis -- 2. The place of the Republic in Plato's political thought / Christopher Rowe -- 3. Rewriting the poets in Plato's characters / David K. O'Connor -- 4. Wise guys and smart alecks in Republic 1 and 2 / Roslyn Weiss -- 5. Justice and virtue : the Republic's inquiry into proper difference / Aryeh Kosman -- 6. The noble lie / Malcolm Schofield -- 7. The three-part soul / G. R. F. Ferrari -- 8. Eros in the Republic / Paul W. Ludwig -- 9. The utopian character of Plato's ideal city / Donald R. Morrison -- 10. Philosophy, the forms, and the art of ruling / David Sedley -- 11. Sun and line : the role of the good / Nicholas Denyer -- 12. Beginning the "longer way" / Mitchell Miller -- 13. The city-soul analogy / Norbert Blossner -- 14. The unhappy tyrant and the craft of inner rule / Richard D. Parry -- 15. What is imitative poetry and why is it bad? / Jessica Moss. -- 16. The life-and-death journey of the soul : interpreting the myth of Er / Stephen Halliwell.