This book is not only a complete aid for students of the 3rd Lyceum of Theoretical Direction but also a useful guide for educators on teaching Plato's Republic. Its new edition has been enriched with a wealth of etymological and semantic elements, with summary questions-answers of interpretive approach, with evaluation criteria and with many additions to the interpretive approach.
Specifically, the book includes:
-Introduction to the Republic
-The text and translation of all excerpts from the textbook that are taught and examined from the original
-Linguistic approach to the ancient text of the above units (comprehensive grammatical and syntactic comments, etymology of almost all words with citation of etymological families, marking of figures of speech and other technical elements)
-Interpretive approach to the content of all units of the textbook with comments on ideological, cultural, factual, aesthetic, etc., as well as exemplary analysis of arguments
-Comprehensive answers to all questions in the textbook
-Summary questions-answers of interpretive approach
-Questions-answers on etymology and semantics
-Evaluation criteria with their answers.
The appendix contains the exam material of Ancient Greek, the types of questions in the Panhellenic Examinations and the way they are graded, instructions for the exams (general and specific), indicative topics that have been given in the Panhellenic Examinations.