# Plato's American Republic

Author: Woodruff, Douglas, 1897-1978

Genre: Category: Humour

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76595

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Plato%27s+American+Republic+Woodruff&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

We were sitting on the pavement in our usual way, considering all things, and examining into them one at a time. There were with me Lysis and his younger brother Phaelon, two youths whom I loved for their inquiring dispositions and habit of always asking why. As we were sitting there we suddenly saw Agathon approaching, and called to him to join us. When we had made room for him he turned to me and said: ‘Listen, Socrates, to a strange thing which happened to me to-day as I was going down to the Piræus. For I now work, as you know, in the Government, and to-day a stranger came up to me outside my office, proposing to buy the Parthenon and all the buildings on the Acropolis and remove them...

## Chapters

- [BOOK VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plato-s-american-republic-76595/chapters/7/index.md)
- [BOOK III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plato-s-american-republic-76595/chapters/3/index.md)
- [BOOK IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plato-s-american-republic-76595/chapters/4/index.md)
- [BOOK II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plato-s-american-republic-76595/chapters/2/index.md)
- [BOOK I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plato-s-american-republic-76595/chapters/1/index.md)
- [BOOK V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plato-s-american-republic-76595/chapters/5/index.md)
- [part I will take care to think of them like that. For as Ariadne had a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/plato-s-american-republic-76595/chapters/6/index.md)