The Republic, Plato's masterpiece on virtue and justice, is characterized as one of the most iconic works worldwide, with profound influence in both philosophy and political theory.

In The Republic, Socrates, surrounded by prominent Athenian citizens and foreigners, all gathered at Polemarchus' house in Piraeus, discuss and construct an ideal city, or rather an ideal form of government, and address fundamental questions. This is the famous dialogue "On Justice," which proposes a plan for organizing the ideal community of law and education and exposes the political and ethical principles of the philosopher.

Books X to I: Just and unjust life. Eudaimonia and kakodaimonia. The moral superiority of justice over injustice. The heavenly pattern. Critique of imitation and imitative arts. Condemnation of imitative art. "The exile of poets." The rewards of the just man. Eschatological myth.

The book includes the original text in ancient Greek, a translation into modern Greek, and commentary.