If you are experiencing the crisis, do not wonder who is to blame. Because the crisis is primarily spiritual, mental, and cultural. And this is because all of us, like other Poseidonians, "forgot the Greek language for so many centuries, mingling with Tyrrhenians, and with Latins, and other foreigners." And we disconnected from our Greekness, the one that our authorities of human spirit emitted during the golden age of our history, speaking our language, shaping our individuality, and elevating our soul to the world of Ideas, far from the ephemeral and perishable pursuits of the everyday myopic horizons.

Today we are called to rediscover our ancestral heritage and bear its weight. Because it is not enough that we were born Greeks, we must reach the height befitting Greeks. Plato's "Republic," the supreme work of the quintessential philosopher, about virtue and justice, shows us the path of seeking a better today. It is enough to get to know it and understand it. This is what we seek with this work.

The work you hold in your hands crystallizes and distributes the essence, meanings, aspirations, and metaphysical views of Plato's "Republic," with a concise, laconic, contemporary language, framed at the same time with parenthetical key phrases in the original text, with the aim of simultaneously being both a means and an end, a means to achieve our goal, to regain our identity, the 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 not to know it if they want to feel "truly Greek".