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What to read after Why Plato Wrote by Danielle S. Allen: 24 titles sharing themes of History & Surveys, Ancient & Classical, and Philosophy, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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The Cave and the Light Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization — Arthur Herman

The Cave and the Light Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception Intersections of Myth, Science and History — David Christenson

Sublime Cosmos in Graeco-Roman Literature and Its Reception Intersections of Myth, Science and History

David Christenson

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Epictetus A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life — A. A. Long

Epictetus A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Three Stoic Classics Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; The Shortness of Life by Seneca; Selected Discourses of Epictetus — Marcus Aurelius

Three Stoic Classics Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; The Shortness of Life by Seneca; Selected Discourses of Epictetus

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Analyses of Aristotle — Jaakko Hintikka

Analyses of Aristotle

Jaakko Hintikka

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Plato’s Essentialism Reinterpreting the Theory of Forms — Vasilis Politis

Plato’s Essentialism Reinterpreting the Theory of Forms

Vasilis Politis

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The True Intellectual System of the Universe Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted: And Its Impossibility Demonstrated; With a — Ralph Cudworth

The True Intellectual System of the Universe Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted: And Its Impossibility Demonstrated; With a

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom — Jonathan Haidt

The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Laws — Plato

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Plato of Athens A Life in Philosophy — Robin Waterfield

Plato of Athens A Life in Philosophy

Robin Waterfield

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Columbia History of Western Philosophy — Richard Henry Popkin

The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

Richard Henry Popkin

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Loving Struggle Phenomenological and Theological Debates — Emmanuel Falque

The Loving Struggle Phenomenological and Theological Debates

Emmanuel Falque

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar — Garry Wills

Rome and Rhetoric Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Greeks and the Irrational — Eric Robertson Dodds

The Greeks and the Irrational

Eric Robertson Dodds

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius — Donald J. Robertson

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

Donald J. Robertson

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Humanly Possible Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope — Sarah Bakewell

Humanly Possible Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Iroquois and the Athenians A Political Ontology — Brian Seitz

The Iroquois and the Athenians A Political Ontology

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Introducing Plato A Graphic Guide — Dave Robinson

Introducing Plato A Graphic Guide

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Ricerche Platoniche (1876) — Felice Tocco

Ricerche Platoniche (1876)

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Kierkegaard and the Roman World — Jon Bartley Stewart

Kierkegaard and the Roman World

Jon Bartley Stewart

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

Meditations — Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Question Concerning the Thing On Kant’s Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles — Martin Heidegger

The Question Concerning the Thing On Kant’s Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles

Martin Heidegger

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Law and the Word — Thomas Troward

The Law and the Word

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy — Michael Fontaine

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Michael Fontaine

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Philosophy

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of History & Surveys, Ancient & Classical, Philosophy — the same threads that run through Why Plato Wrote by Danielle S. Allen. Among the authors featured: Arthur Herman, David Christenson, A. A. Long, Marcus Aurelius, and others.

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