Critical essays on the classics.

A fallacy in Plato's Republic / David Sachs -- Psychology of justice in Plato / John M. Cooper -- Plato's totalitarianism / C.C.W. Taylor -- Analogy of city and soul in Plato's Republic / Bernard Williams -- Inside and outside the Republic / Jonathan Lear -- Philosopher and the female in the political thought of Plato / Arlen W. Saxonhouse -- Was Plato a feminist? / Gregory Vlastos -- Naked old women in the Palaestra / D.C.C. Reeve -- Understanding and the good: sun, line, and cave / Julia Annas -- Sovereignty of good (excerpt) / Iris Murdoch -- A metaphysical paradox / Gregory Vlastos -- Defense of justice in Plato's Republic / Richard Kraut -- Plato and the poets / James O. Urmson