{"database": "deitydb", "table": "sources", "rows": [["SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC", "Plato, Republic (c. 375 BCE)", null, "primary text", "Plato's central dialogue on justice, the ideal state, and the nature of the soul. The opening sentence (Republic 327a) explicitly situates the dialogue at the Piraeus festival of Bendis: \"I had gone down yesterday to the Piraeus with Glaucon son of Ariston to pray to the goddess, and also because I wanted to see how they would conduct the festival, since this was its first celebration.\" The goddess is identified as Bendis, confirming that the Thracian deity's Athenian cult was of recent, official establishment. The Piraeus Bendideia is thus attested in one of the most widely-read texts of classical antiquity. Also relevant for Thracian soul-doctrine: Plato Charmides 156d-157c cites a Thracian physician of Zalmoxis who teaches that the soul must be treated before the body \u2014 presenting Zalmoxis as a revealer of holistic soul-medicine."]], "columns": ["source_id", "title", "url", "source_type", "scope"], "primary_keys": ["source_id"], "primary_key_values": ["SRC_PLATO_REPUBLIC"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7279399997059954, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}