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Barker, E. The Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle. New York, 1959. 
Cavalier, Robert J. Plato for Beginners. New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, 1990. Clear introduction in the form of a documentary comic book.
Cornford, Francis M. Plato's Theory of Knowledge. London, 1935. 
Crombie, A. C. An Examination of Plato's Doctrines. London, 1962-1963. 
Dodds, E. R. The Greeks and the Irrational. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951. 
Farrar, Cynthia. The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Discusses the democratic thinkers whom Plato opposed.
Finley, M. I. Politics in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Context in which Plato wrote.
Friedlander, Paul. Plato. Princeton University Press, 1964-1970. Scholarly exposition of Plato's thought and influence.
Havelock, Eric. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1963. On the oral literary culture which Plato sought to supplant with philosophy.
Kraut, Richard, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Plato. Cambridge University Press, 1992. Comprehensive reference companion.
Melling, David J. Understanding Plato. Oxford University Press, 1987. Clear and concise study of his thought.
Reeve, C. D. C. Philosopher-Kings: the Argument of Plato's Republic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. 
Rowe, C. J. Plato. Brighton: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1984. Brief overview of Plato's works.

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