If you are experiencing a crisis, do not wonder who is to blame. Because the crisis is primarily spiritual, psychological, and cultural. This is because all of us, like other Posidonian people, "have forgotten the Greek language after so many centuries of mingling with Tyrrhenians, and with Latins, and other foreigners." And we have been cut off from our Hellenicity, which was emitted during the golden age of our history by the authorities of the human spirit, speaking our language, shaping our individuality, and elevating our soul to the world of Ideas, far from the ephemeral and perishable pursuits of everyday life with myopic horizons.

We are called today to rediscover our ancestral heritage and to bear its weight. Because it is not enough that we were born Greeks; we must reach the height that befits Greeks. Plato's "Republic," the seminal work on virtue and justice by the quintessential universal philosopher, shows us the way to seek a better today. All we need to do is to know and understand it.

This is what we aim for with this work. The work you hold in your hands crystallizes and elaborates on the essence, meanings, aspirations, and metaphysical views of Plato's "Republic," in a way that is simple, concise, modern, and also framed with key parenthetical propositions from the original text, with the aim of being both a means and an end, that is, a means for us to achieve our goal of reclaiming our identity, and virtuous way of life, individually and collectively, as individuals and as a society.

Plato's "Republic" is the sacred gospel of the Greeks and none of us is entitled to be unaware of it if we wish to feel "truly Greek."