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"Within the Just City, you will become your very best selves. You will learn and develop and strive to be excellent." Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community filled by over 10,000 children and some hundred adult teachers from all eras of history, along with some handy robots from the very far individuals future - all set down together over a Mediterranean island in the faraway past. The student Simmea, blessed an Egyptian farmer's girl sometime between Advertisement 500 and Advertisement 1000, is a brilliant child, looking forward to knowledge, ready to strive to be her best personal. The instructor Maia was once Ethel, a young Victorian lady of much learning and few prospects who prayed to Pallas Athene within an unguarded moment throughout a trip to Rome - and in an instant found herself in the Just City, with gray-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. In the meantime, Apollo - stunned by the realization that there are things mortals understand better than he does indeed - has arranged to reside in a individuals life and has come to the location as one of the children. He has learned his true identification and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime he's susceptible to all the troubles to be human. Then, a couple of years in, Sokrates arrives - the same Sokrates registered by Plato himself - to ask all the bothersome questions you'll expect. What happens next is an account only the brilliant Jo Walton could notify.