RE PLATO AND POSSIBLE WORLDS REPUBLIC

Those who can, should get a copy of the early Teaching Company tape of Dalton's lectures on Power, view the Plato one especially.

The audience's reactions to Plato's, and to Aristotle's contrary, view, on the role of women, alone, is worth it.

Still, one needs to see all this in contradistinction to the rise, and dominance, of Sparta,

a topic seldom considered in the same breath with quite abstract political/philosophical discussions of Plato's views.