Plato's Republic was written by and ancient culture for an ancient culture. No?

Question

And what about all those translations?

Answer 1

Don't people go to college to translate from the original greek to the modern language? Think they might be getting the meaning meant for that time?

Answer 2

Times change but people don't. Plato's Republic Has just as much meaning today as it did when it was first told.

The translations attempt to bring the story into the modern vernacular in the hope of making it more easy to understand. The problem is not with the style of speaking but with the complexity of the understanding that the story attempts to convey.

One must have the ability to think outside the box to understand what is being said, Few can actually do this well enough to get the message that is beings given. I could not get it the first time I read it. It took me a few trys to finally get it.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 3

That's a strange way to put it. A member (or various members) of an ancient culture wrote The Republic. Some of what he (they) said is fairly Helleno-centric, but most is accessible to even modern thinkers. This is much the same as the work of other Greek thinkers, e.g., Socrates, Aristotle, etc.

I'm not sure what the issue is with the translations, as these are pretty straight-forward endeavors.