ADAM'S WORK ON THE ‘REPUBLIC’

James Adam died on 30 August 1907 at the age of forty-seven. The major part of his scholarly activity had been devoted to Plato, and, apart from his editions of the Republic, he had edited, with introduction and commentary, the Apology (1887), Crito (1888), Euthyphro (1890), and (in conjunction with his wife, Mrs Adela Marion Adam) Protagoras (1893). His preliminary publications on the Republic, alluded to from time to time in the two-volume editio maior of 1902, were almost entirely superseded by the latter; they had comprised a monograph, The Nuptial Number of Plato: its Solution and Significance (1891), a number of articles in the Classical Review, and a text with apparatus (1897), the second edition of which (1909) Mrs Adam brought into conformity with her husband's later views. His further discussion of textual problems will be mentioned below. In addition, he touched on the Republic in his posthumously published Gifford Lectures on The Religious Teachers of Greece, delivered at Aberdeen in 1904–6 and published in 1908 with an introductory memoir by Mrs Adam, while the preface to Mrs Adam's own Plato: Moral and Political Ideals (1913) states: ‘In the earlier chapters I have made much use of MS. notes for lectures by my husband.’