The Republic of Plato

by Plato

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Habit and virtue, 7. [518 E]; 10. [619 D].

[Hades], tales about the terrors of, 1. [330 D]; 2. [366 A]; such tales not to be heeded, 3. [386 B] [cp. Crat. 403];
—the place of punishment, 2. [363]; 10. [614] foll.; Musaeus’ account of the good and bad in, 2. [363];
—the journey to, 10. [614] [cp. Phaedo 108 A]:
—(Pluto) helmet of, 10. [612 B]. Cp. [World below].

Half, the, better than the whole, 5. [466 B].

Handicraft arts, a reproach, 9. [590] [cp. Gorg. 512].

Happiness of the unjust, 1. [354]; 2. [364]; 3. [392 B] (cp. 8. [545 A], and Gorg. 470 foll.; Laws 2. 661; 10. 899 E, 905 A);
—of the guardians, 4. [576] foll.; 5. [465 E] foll.; 6. [498 C]; 7. [519 E];
—of Olympic victors, 5. [465 D], [466 A]; 10. [618 A];
—of the tyrant, 9. [576] foll., [587];
—the greatest happiness awarded to the most just, ib. [580] foll.

Harmonies, the more complex to be rejected, 3. [397] foll.;
—the Lydian harmony, ib. [398]; the Ionian, ib. E; the Dorian and Phrygian alone to be accepted, ib. [399].

Harmony, akin to virtue, 3. [401 A] (cp. 7. [522 A]);
—science of, must be acquired by the rulers, 7. [531] (cp. [Music]);
—harmony of soul and body, 3. [402 D];
—harmony of the soul, effected by temperance, 4. [430], [441 E], [442 D], [443] (cp. 9. [591 D], and Laws 2. 653 B);
—harmony in the acquisition of wealth, 9. [591 E].

[Harp], the, (κιθάρα), allowed in the best state, 3. [399]. 354

Hatred, between the despot and his subjects, 8. [567 E]; 9. [576 A].

Health and justice compared, 4. [444]; pleasure of health, 9. [583 C]; secondary to virtue, ib. [591 D].

Hearing, classed among faculties, 5. [477 E]; composed of two elements, speech and hearing, and not requiring, like sight, a third intermediate nature, 6. [507 C].

Heaven, the starry, the fairest of visible things, 7. [529 D]; the motions of, not eternal, ib. [530 A].

Heaviness, 5. [479]; 7. [524 A].

Hector, dragged by Achilles round the tomb of Patroclus, 3. [391 B].

Helen, never went to Troy, 9. [586 C].

Hellas, not to be devastated in civil war, 5. [470 A] foll., [471 A]:
—Hellenes characterised by the love of knowledge, 4. [435 E]; did not originally strip in the gymnasia, 5. [452 D]; not to be enslaved by Hellenes, ib. [469 B], [C]; united by ties of blood, ib. [470 C]; not to devastate Hellas, ib. [471 A] foll.; Hellenes and barbarians are strangers, ib. [469 D], [470 C] [cp. Pol. 262 D].

Hellespont, 3. [404 C].

Hephaestus, binds Herè, 2. [378 D]; thrown from heaven by Zeus, [ibid.]; improperly delineated by Homer, 3. [389 A]; chains Ares and Aphroditè, ib. [390 C].

Heracleitus, the ‘sun of,’ 6. [498 B].

Herè, bound by Hephaestus, 2. [378 D]; Herè and Zeus, [ibid.]; 3. [390 B]; begged alms for the daughters of Inachus, 2. [381 D].

Hermes, the star sacred to (Mercury), 10. [617 A].

Hermus, 8. [566 C].

Herodicus of Selymbria, the inventor of valetudinarianism, 3. [406 A] foll.

Heroes, not to lament, 3. [387], [388]; 10. [603]–606; to be rewarded, 5. [468]; after death, [ibid.]

Heroic rhythm, 3. [400 C].

Hesiod, his rewards of justice, 2. [363 B]; 10. [612 A]; his stories improper for youth, 2. [377 D]; his classification of the races, 8. [547 A]; a wandering rhapsode, 10. [600 D]:—
Quoted:—
Theogony,
l. 154, 459, 2. [377 E].
Works and Days,
l. 40, 5. [466 B].
l. 109, 8. [546 E].
l. 122, 5. [468 E].
l. 233, 2. [363 B].
l. 287, ib. [364 D].
Fragm. 117, 3. [390 E].

Hirelings, required in the state, 2. [371 E].

Holiness of marriage, 5. [458 E], [459] [cp. Laws 6. 776]. See [Marriage].

[Homer], supports the theory that justice is a thief, 1. [334 B]; his rewards of justice, 2. [363 B]; 10. [612 A]; his stories not approved for youth, 2. [377 D] foll. (cp. 10. [595]); his mode of narration, 3. [393 A] foll.; feeds his heroes on campaigners’ fare, ib. [404 C]; Socrates’ feeling of reverence for him, 10. [595 C], [607] (cp. 3. [391 A]); the captain and teacher of the tragic poets, 10. [595 B], [598 D], E; not a legislator, ib. [599 E]; or a general, ib. [600 A] [cp. Ion 537 foll.]; or inventor, [ibid.]; or teacher, [ibid.]; no educator, ib. [600], [606 E], [607 B]; not much esteemed in his lifetime, ib. [600 B] foll.; went about as a rhapsode, [ibid.] Passages quoted or referred to:—
Iliad i.
l. 11 foll., 3. [392 E] foll.
l. 131, 6. [501 B].
l. 225, 3. [389 E].
l. 590 foll., 2. [378 D].
l. 599 foll., 3. [389 A].
Iliad ii.
l. 623, 6. [501 C].
Iliad iii.
l. 8, 3. [389 E]. 355
Iliad iv.
l. 69 foll., 2. [379 E].
l. 218, 3. [408 A].
l. 412, ib. [389 E].
l. 431, [ibid.]
Iliad v.
l. 845, 10. [612 B].
Iliad vii.
l. 321, 5. [468 D].
Iliad viii.
l. 162, [ibid.]
Iliad ix.
l. 497 foll., 2. [364 D].
l. 513 foll., 3. [390 E].
Iliad xi.
l. 576, ib. [405 E].
l. 624, [ibid.]
l. 844, ib. [408 A].
Iliad xii.
l. 311, 5. [468 E].
Iliad xiv.
l. 294 foll., 3. [390 C].
Iliad xvi.
l. 433, ib. [388 C].
l. 776, 8. [566 D].
l. 856 foll., 3. [386 E].
Iliad xviii.
l. 23 foll., ib. [388 A].
l. 54, ib. [B].
Iliad xix.
l. 278 foll., ib. [390 E].
Iliad xx.
l. 4 foll., 2. [379 E].
l. 64 foll., 3. [386 C].
Iliad xxi.
l. 222 foll., ib. [391 B].
Iliad xxii.
ll. 15, 20, ib. [A].
l. 168 foll., ib. [388 C].
l. 362 foll., ib. [386 E].
l. 414, ib. [388 B].
Iliad xxiii.
l. 100 foll., ib. [387 A].
l. 103 foll., ib. [386 D].
l. 151 ib. [391 B].
l. 175 [ibid.]
Iliad xxiv.
l. 10 foll., ib. [388 A].
l. 527, 2. [379 D].
Odyssey i.
l. 351 foll., 4. [424 D].
Odyssey viii.
l. 266 foll., 3. [390 D].
Odyssey ix.
l. 9. foll., ib. [B].
l. 91 foll., 8. [560 C].
Odyssey x.
l. 495, 3. [386 E].
Odyssey xi.
l. 489 foll., ib. [C]; 7. [516 D].
Odyssey xii.
l. 342, 3. [390 B].
Odyssey xvii.
l. 383 foll., ib. [389 D].
l. 485 foll., 2. [381 D].
Odyssey xix.
l. 109 foll., ib. [363 B].
l. 395, 1. [334 B].
Odyssey xx.
l. 17, 3. [390 D]; 4. [441 B].
Odyssey xxiv.
l. 6, 3. [387 A].
l. 40, 8. [566 D].

Homer, allusions to, 1. [328 E]; 2. [381 D]; 3. [390 E]; 8. [544 D].

Homeridae, 10. [599 E].

Honest man, the, a match for the rogue, 3. [409 C] (cp. 10. [613 C]).

Honesty, fostered by the possession of wealth, 1. [331 A]; thought by mankind to be unprofitable, 2. [364 A]; 3. [392 B].

Honour, pleasures enjoyed by the lover of, 9. [581 C], [586 E]:
—the ‘government of honour,’ see [Timocracy].

Hope, the comfort of the righteous in old age (Pindar), 1. [331 A].

Household cares, 5. [465 C].

Human interests, unimportance of, 10. [604 B] (cp. 6. [486 A], and Theaet. 173; Laws 1. 644 E; 7. 803);
—life, full of evils, 2. [379 C]; shortness of, 10. [608 D];
—nature, incapable of doing many things well, 3. [395 B];
—sacrifices, 8. [565 D]. 356

Hunger, 4. [437 E], [439]; an inanition (κένωσις) of the body, 9. [585 A].

Hymns, to the gods, may be allowed in the State, 10: [607 A] [cp. Laws 3. 700 A; 7. 801 E];
—marriage hymns, 5. [459 E].

Hypothesis, in mathematics and in the intellectual world, 6. [510]; in the sciences, 7. [533].