-
who inhabit this dinner party that Socrates and Glaucon have been promised.
-
Who are they and what do they represent?
-
There is Cephalus, who we will see very quickly,
-
the father of Polemarchus and whose home they are attending.
-
The venerable paterfamilias, the venerable father of the family.
-
Polemarchus, his son, a solid patriot who defends not only
-
his father's honor, but that of his friends and fellow citizens.
-
We will also see Thrasymachus, a cynical intellectual who rivals Socrates
-
as an educator of future leaders and statesmen.
-
Of course, it is the exchange between Socrates and Thrasymachus
-
that is one of the most famous moments of the book.
-
There is, in the first set of dialogues,