one thing that occurred to me...you can map Odysseus' choice of soul at the end and the experiences that led him through the Odyssey to the ordering of his soul at different stages of life. Think like this:
Troy = timocracy = sacking the city for treasure (and reputation, sort of)
return home = ship filled with booty = oligarchy
confusion on the way home, and various misadventures = failure to stay on mission/be driven by any one desire = democracy
staying with the goddess for too long indulging in immoderate desires at others expense (his dead crew) = tyranny
despair over the wages of tyranny leads him to head home, where he gets his life back in order, dies... then Plato (Socrates) puts him in Er's myth, where he pics a simple man with a balanced and ordered life.
Leaves me with this thought: NOTHING in that book is an accident, and there is no way in hell I can believe he meant a literal city be created, ever.
I hadn't thought of it like this before. There's something here for sure.
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