Joe Sachs taught for thirty years in
the Great Books program at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has
translated Homer’s Iliad (Paul Dry Books, 2018) and Odyssey (Paul
Dry Books, 2014); Aristotle’s Physics, Metaphysics, On the Soul and On
Memory and Recollection, Nicomachean Ethics, Rhetoric, Politics, and
Poetics; and Plato’s Theaetetus, Republic, Gorgias, and Socrates
and the Sophists. He lives in Annapolis.
Plato was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He was a student of Socrates and taught Aristotle. He founded the Academy, the most influential school of the ancient world. The Republic is his best-known work.