Rebecca LeMoine is Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. She has published work in academic journals including the American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought, and Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought.

Plato's Caves offers us a remarkably coherent and compelling vision of what a Platonic theory of cultural diversity would entail. We might think of LeMoine's book as doing the provocative work of the gadfly celebrated in its pages, prompting us to remember that there is still much in the thought of this seemingly familiar philosopher that remains to be better understood.

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Setting the Stage: A World of Caves Part I: Athenians and foreigners 3. The Panharmonic Music of the Piraeus: Diversity, Democracy, and Philosophy in the Republic 4. Civic Myths through Immigrant Voices: Aspasia as Gadfly in the Menexenus Part II: Athenians as foreigners 5. An Athenian in Crete: Moderating the Song of the Armed Camp in the Laws 6. Socrates the Foreigner? Self-Examination and Civic Identity in the Phaedrus 7. Conclusion NotesBibliography Index

Rebecca LeMoine is Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. She has published work in academic journals including the American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought, and Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought.

Plato's Caves offers us a remarkably coherent and compelling vision of what a Platonic theory of cultural diversity would entail. We might think of LeMoine's book as doing the provocative work of the gadfly celebrated in its pages, prompting us to remember that there is still much in the thought of this seemingly familiar philosopher that remains to be better understood.

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Setting the Stage: A World of Caves Part I: Athenians and foreigners 3. The Panharmonic Music of the Piraeus: Diversity, Democracy, and Philosophy in the Republic 4. Civic Myths through Immigrant Voices: Aspasia as Gadfly in the Menexenus Part II: Athenians as foreigners 5. An Athenian in Crete: Moderating the Song of the Armed Camp in the Laws 6. Socrates the Foreigner? Self-Examination and Civic Identity in the Phaedrus 7. Conclusion NotesBibliography Index

Rebecca LeMoine is Associate Professor of Political Science at Florida Atlantic University. She has published work in academic journals including the American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought, and Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought.

Plato's Caves offers us a remarkably coherent and compelling vision of what a Platonic theory of cultural diversity would entail. We might think of LeMoine's book as doing the provocative work of the gadfly celebrated in its pages, prompting us to remember that there is still much in the thought of this seemingly familiar philosopher that remains to be better understood.

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Setting the Stage: A World of Caves Part I: Athenians and foreigners 3. The Panharmonic Music of the Piraeus: Diversity, Democracy, and Philosophy in the Republic 4. Civic Myths through Immigrant Voices: Aspasia as Gadfly in the Menexenus Part II: Athenians as foreigners 5. An Athenian in Crete: Moderating the Song of the Armed Camp in the Laws 6. Socrates the Foreigner? Self-Examination and Civic Identity in the Phaedrus 7. Conclusion NotesBibliography Index