ABSTRACT
Socrates had gone to the port city of Piraeus for a religious festival, because the goddess there was said to be powerful. He was turning to head home when someone came running after him. Polemarchus followed not far behind his slave, demanding that Socrates stay a while as his guest. Increasingly, elites have begun to dream of an Indian city without the sensory overload of an Indian city, and without the overwhelming pressures of migration of people less prosperous than themselves. The just city, Socrates explains, enables the good by enhancing those pleasures which are sociable which do not require hurting others, which are not done at the expense of others but rather are enhanced by the richness of the social world of the city. The agora or marketplace in Ephesus is not unlike the one where Socrates would have talked and debated in Athens.
