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Plato and the Tyrant

By: Anselm Audley
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
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The greatest philosopher who ever lived. A dissolute tyrant in need of an education. What could possibly go wrong?

Plato was the most brilliant thinker of his age. Head of the Academy in Athens, friend of the best minds of his generation, his philosophy was famous across the Greek world. But would he ever get the chance to try his ideas out?

Dionysius the Younger was Tyrant of Syracuse, feckless son of a famous father. His rule ran from Sicily to the Adriatic, but he had time only for debauchery and dancing girls. The ancient cities of Sicily were in ruins, destroyed by the rising power of Carthage. His father's empire was slipping away. His austere, disciplined uncle Dion, Plato's most beloved pupil and the power behind the throne, was in despair.

So was born the dream of making a real philosopher-king by taking an unworthy young man with absolute power and shaping him into a model of wisdom, integrity, and benevolence.

In the last generation of Greek independence, Plato's doomed journeys to Syracuse were an attempt to turn thoughts into actions, to make a philosophical ideal into a political reality. But philosophy could be a dangerous business.

©2015 Anselm Audley (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
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  • Categories: History
Greece Greek & Roman History
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Madness or Power / Power or Madness ?

Anselm Audley has written a fabulous piece of listening pleasure, for my sunny porch of hammocks.
Set in the ancient sun dappled climes of Sicily we learn the interchangeability of madness, power, tyranny and sycophancy while a philosopher is his words.
Thoroughly enjoyable, thank you Anselm Audley, much appreciated. :-)

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Anachronistic costume drama

I was interested in the story

always the author had no taste for the previously different world of the ancients

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