Read "Republic" by Plato online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
Persons of the dialogue: Socrates, who is the narrator Cephalus Glaucon Thrasymachus Adeimantus Cleitophon Polemarchus And others who are mute auditors.
The scene is laid in the house of Cephalus at the Piraeus; and the whole dialogue is narrated by Socrates the day after it actually took place to Timaeus, Hermocrates, Critias, and a nameless person, who are introduced in the "Timaeus."