The Republic Allusions

Literary and Philosophical References

• Homer (everywhere)
• Sophocles (329b-c)
• Aristophanes, The Frogs (329b-c), Ecclesiazusae (461d)
• Aeschylus (380a, 381d, 391e), Seven Against Thebes (361b, 362a-b), Agamemnon (408b)
• Hesiod, Works and Days (363b, 364d, 466c, 4683-469a)
• Archilochus (365c)
• Hesiod, Theogeny (377e-378a)
• Euripides, Alcestis (408b), The Trojan Women (568b)
• Pindar (457b), Pythians (408b), Herodotus (453d)

Historical References

• Periander (336a)
• King Perdiccas II of Macedonia (336a)
• King Xerxes (336a)