Plato: “Allegory of the Cave”

Further Reading

Articles

• Andrew, Edward. “Descent to the Cave.” Review of Politics 45, no. 4 (October 1983): 510–535.
• Ferguson, John. “Sun, Line, and Cave Again.” Classical Quarterly, n.s., 13, no. 2 (November 1963): 188–193.
• Havelock, Eric. “Plato's Politics and the American Constitution.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 93 (1990): 1–24.
• Malcolm, John. “The Cave Revisited.” Classical Quarterly, new series, 31, no. 1 (May 1981): 60–68.
• Raven, J. E. “Sun, Divided Line, and Cave.” Classical Quarterly, new series, 3, nos. 1–2 (May 1953): 22–32.

Books

• Annas, Julia. An Introduction to Plato's Republic. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1981.
• Griswold, Charles L., Jr., ed. Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings. New York: Routledge, 1988.
• Guthrie, W. K. C. A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 3. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
• Jowett, B. The Dialogues of Plato, 5 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1892.
• Levinson, R. B. In Defense of Plato. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1953.
• Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1. London: Routledge, 1945.
• Reeve, C. D. C. Philosopher-Kings: The Argument of Plato's Republic. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.
• Stone, I. F. The Trial of Socrates. New York: Anchor Books, 1989.
• White, Nicholas P. A Companion to Plato's Republic. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Company, 1979.

Web Sites

• Suzanne, Bernard. “Plato and His Dialogues.” Plato and His Dialogues Web site. http://plato-dialogues.org/plato.htm.