![]() What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell. Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives - the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself - to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect. ![]() ![]() For this lifetime he is prone to all the troubles of being human. A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre, and rating. He knows his true identity and conceals it from his peers. Series list: Thessaly (3 Books) by Jo Walton. ![]() Meanwhile, Apollo - stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does - has arranged to live a human life and has come to the city as one of the children. The teacher Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects who prayed to Pallas Athene in an unguarded moment during a trip to Rome - and in an instant found herself in the Just City, with gray-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. ![]() The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between AD 500 and AD 1000, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. You will learn and grow and strive to be excellent."Ĭreated as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community populated by over 10,000 children and a few hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the far human future - all set down together on a Mediterranean island in the distant past. "Here in the Just City, you will become your best selves. ![]()
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