No obesity in Kallipolis

Plato's vision of an ideal society is centred around physical education

Many ancient thinkers have imagined ideal standards of moral conduct, leadership behaviour or cultural norms, but none had gone farther in laying the groundwork for an ideal society than Plato in “The Republic”.

If we think of Hesiod’s vision of an ideal state where justice prevails and people live in harmony with the gods and nature, or Solon’s 6th cent…