I wasn’t sure why we were being fed those stories. So what was it that held this back from being a 5 Star read? Well like I mentioned, I didn’t feel like two of the POVs were all that relevant. Each having or being something the other sort of maybe desired but always ultimately loving to each other. The dynamics between her and her sister Thetis were very well done. Lastly we have Marsilia, Simmea’s granddaughter. I found myself questioning the choice to include them as POVs.
He really has very little to do overall with the main plot lines of the book or the trilogy. He’s not a bad character, but he is a third party observer.
The same is true for our other POV character, Jason. I wasn’t head over heels in love with Crocus’s story, even though I adore him as a character, he just seemed disconnected from the action this go around. Then we have Crocus, who finally gets to tell us his side of the story. We get to meet some new characters and we are reacquainted with some old ones. We end here, with Necessity, which gives us almost nothing philosophical to consider, yet provides us with plenty of laugh out loud entertainment and an excellent conclusion to the overall story. The action in The Philosopher Kings increases overall, but there are still plenty of philosophical questions to chew on. It gives the reader lots of philosophical questions to consider. It starts sort of slowly and without much action in The Just City, but ends on a high note with what is known as The Last Debate. This is a really beautifully told trilogy, and the trilogy I’m giving 5 stars. The difference between Plato’s Socrates and Xenophon’s is very instuctive.Hello friends! I’m rounding out my last couple Throwback Thursday posts with a review of Necessity, the third book in Jo Walton’s Thessaly series. I have a complete Xenophon on my Kindle, and one day I’ll read more than the Socratic ones and the Anabasis. Apart from the Republic, the Penguin translations are good. The Jowett (linked above) has the great advantage of being free online, and generally the online free translations of Plato are pretty good, and the only reasonable way to get the obscure ones. Lindsay) translation is way better than the Penguin. I thoroughly recommend the new (2013) Loeb translation of The Republic, which is lucid and excellent and well worth the price. There was one moment when I wanted to look up something and I realised there was Plato on absolutely every flat surface in my study - and that’s not taking into account anything on my e-reader, which has all of Plato and Xenophon conveniently in the original and in translation.
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