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The Republic
PlatoThe foundational dialogue on justice, the ideal city, the Forms, and the cave allegory.
The Consolation of Philosophy
BoethiusA prisoner converses with Lady Philosophy in prose and verse, drawing on Platonic ideas about fortune and the good.
Theologia Platonica
Marsilio FicinoA Christian Platonist account of the immortality of the soul, written by the Florentine translator of Plato.
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