Plato’s ideal society and Utopia

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Preface VII
4. The quest for the best. Praise, blame, utopia 1
5. What will we do when we get there? Utopia and Dicing in Greek Comedy 41
6. What Thomas More learned from Herodotus about Utopia 57
7. Temporality and utopia in Xenophon and Isocrates 77
8. Plato’s ideal society and Utopia 103
9. Plato and Utopia: Philosophy, Power, and Practicability in Plato’s Republic 121
10. Plato and the utopia within us 145
11. Aristotle’s ‘City of our Prayers’ within the History of Political Utopianism 167
12. Utopia and the quest for autarkeia 185
13. Were the later Stoics anti-utopians? 199
14. Cicero and the Golden Age Tradition 213
15. All Over the World: The Utopian Idea in Diodorus Siculus 231
16. Laughter in Lucian’s Utopias of the Dead 255
17. Tao Yuanming’s ‘Peach Blossom Source’ and the Ideal of the ‘Golden Age’ in Classical Antiquity: Utopias in Ancient China and Classical Antiquity 277
18. Index locorum 305