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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Just City
  name:
    name part: Walton, Jo
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 368 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: Created as an experiment by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, the Just City is a planned community, populated by over ten thousand 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. The student Simmea, born an Egyptian farmer's daughter sometime between 500 and 1000 A.D, is a brilliant child, eager for knowledge, ready to strive to be her best self. 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 grey-eyed Athene standing unmistakably before her. 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. He knows his true identity, and conceals it from his peers. For this lifetime, he is prone to all the troubles of being human. Then, a few years in, Sokrates arrives - the same Sokrates recorded by Plato himself - to ask all the troublesome questions you would expect. What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.--Provided by publisher.
  note: Jo Walton.
  subject:
    topic: Gods, Greek
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Planned communities
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Imaginary places
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Time travel
    genre: Fiction
  classification: PR6073.A448 J87 2015
  classification: 823/.914
  identifier: 0765332663
  identifier: 9780765332660
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 140512
    record change date: 20151206125705.0
    record identifier: in00003495384
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng