Home › Classics › The Republic

The Republic escape rooms

5 self-checking escape rooms on The Republic by Plato, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.

No logins and nothing to install. Try the first two locks of any room free. See all the classics escape rooms.

Room by room

• Books 1–2: Down to the Piraeus. The festival at the Piraeus, old Cephalus, the answers of Polemarchus and Thrasymachus, the challenge of Glaucon and Adeimantus, the first city in words and the stories its guardians may hear.
• Books 3–4: The Myth of Metals. The stories, music and training of the guardians, the founding story of the metals, the guardians' way of life, the four virtues of the city and the search for justice in the soul.
• Books 5–6: Three Great Waves. The three waves, women as guardians, the rules of war between Greeks, knowledge and opinion, the parable of the ship, and the sun and the divided line.
• Book 7: Out of the Cave. The prisoners in the cave, the long climb of the one set free, his return, education as the turning of the soul, and the studies that lead the future rulers towards the Good.
• Books 8–10: The Spindle of Necessity. The four failing kinds of city and soul, the misery of the tyrant, the image of the soul as a beast, a lion and a human being, the quarrel with poetry, and the story of Er.