Benjamin Jowett

Master of Balliol, and the translator through whom the English-speaking world met Plato. His 1871 Dialogues is stately, free with the Greek, and still the version most quotations come from — including nearly every famous line of the cave.

The reception station. When a phrase from this room sounds familiar, it is usually because it is his English rather than Plato's Greek — a distinction this app makes everywhere else and should make here.