Plato's "Republic" is one of the most influential writings of antiquity. What could a just state look like? What about a just society? Plato outlines an ideal state where men and women of the ruling class are equal, there is neither marriage nor family, all children are raised collectively - without knowing their parents - no one owns anything, a cultivated elite oversees law and order, and philosophers guide the fate of the state. Each individual is concerned not with personal happiness, but with the welfare of the state: ideal or totalitarian horror vision? This is a bilingual annotated edition of this important text for classicists, philosophers, and historians. Languages: German, Greek (up to 1453).