I believe The Teaching Company also sells a series of DVD lectures on "The Republic" by David Roochnik, although The Teaching Company's products are really expensive if you don't wait for them to go on sale. The Copleston and Stanford Encyclopedia discussions are much shorter.) Your professor can probably recommend some other papers or books. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online) is another great resource, and it offers 6 suggestions for "general discussions" of the text, none of which I have read, so I'm no help there. The Copleston "History of Philosophy" series is first-rate and does include a discussion of the text - as well as having a number of other discussions throughout the series of work that is at least partly in response to Plato. If you really find the book that boring, though - and it's too bad, because it's a really great book - maybe you would benefit from reading other commentaries as well. (I am also not familiar with the Sparknotes for that text.) If you're spending more than a day or two on "The Republic," though, I suspect that it won't. Without knowing more about your syllabus, I doni't know whether using Sparknotes alone will be enough.
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