Plato: “Laws”, Book One, Preamble, 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Laws”, Book One, Preamble, 360 B.C.E.
Strangers, let me ask a question of you—Was a God or a man the author...
Plato: “Philebus”, 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Philebus”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Protarchus, Philebus.
SOCRATES: Observe, Protarchus, the nature of the position which you are now...
Plato: “Statesman”, 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Statesman”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Theodorus, Socrates, The Eleatic Stranger, The Younger Socrates.
SOCRATES: I owe you many thanks, indeed,...
Plato: “Sophist”, 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Sophist”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Theodorus, Theaetetus, Socrates. An Eleatic Stranger, whom Theodorus and Theaetetus bring with them. The...
Plato: “Theaetetus,” 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Theaetetus, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus.
Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid's house in Megara; they...
Plato: "Theaetetus," 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Theaetetus, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Theodorus, Theaetetus.
Euclid and Terpsion meet in front of Euclid's house in Megara; they...
Plato: “Parmenides,” 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Parmenides”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Cephalus, Adeimantus, Glaucon, Antiphon, Pythodorus, Socrates, Zeno, Parmenides, Aristoteles.
Cephalus rehearses a dialogue which is...
Plato: "Parmenides," 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Parmenides”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Cephalus, Adeimantus, Glaucon, Antiphon, Pythodorus, Socrates, Zeno, Parmenides, Aristoteles.
Cephalus rehearses a dialogue which is...
Plato: “Critias,” 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Critias”, 360 B.C.E.
Persons of the Dialogue
CRITIAS
HERMOCRATES
TIMAEUS
SOCRATES
Timaeus. How thankful I am, Socrates, that I have arrived at last, and, like a...
Plato: "Critias," 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Critias”, 360 B.C.E.
Persons of the Dialogue
CRITIAS
HERMOCRATES
TIMAEUS
SOCRATES
Timaeus. How thankful I am, Socrates, that I have arrived at last, and, like a...
Plato: “Timaeus,” 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Timaeus”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Critias, Timaeus, Hermocrates.
SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the...
Plato: "Timaeus," 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Timaeus”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Critias, Timaeus, Hermocrates.
SOCRATES: One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the...
Plato: “Gorgias,” 380 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Gorgias”, 380 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Callicles, Socrates, Chaerephon, Gorgias, Polus.
SCENE: The house of Callicles.
CALLICLES: The wise man, as the...
Plato: "Gorgias," 380 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Gorgias”, 380 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Callicles, Socrates, Chaerephon, Gorgias, Polus.
SCENE: The house of Callicles.
CALLICLES: The wise man, as the...
Plato: "Phaedo," 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Phaedo”, 360 B.C.E.
Persons of the Dialogue:
PHAEDO, who is the narrator of the dialogue to ECHECRATES of Phlius
SOCRATES
APOLLODORUS
SIMMIAS
CEBES
CRITO
ATTENDANT OF THE PRISON
Scene:...
Plato: “Phaedo,” 360 B.C.E.
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Plato: “Phaedo”, 360 B.C.E.
Persons of the Dialogue:
PHAEDO, who is the narrator of the dialogue to ECHECRATES of Phlius
SOCRATES
APOLLODORUS
SIMMIAS
CEBES
CRITO
ATTENDANT OF THE PRISON
Scene:...
Plato: “Euthyphro,”
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Plato: “Euthyphro”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Euthyphro.
SCENE: The Porch of the King Archon.
EUTHYPHRO: Why have you left the Lyceum,...
Plato: "Euthyphro,"
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Plato: “Euthyphro”, 360 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, Euthyphro.
SCENE: The Porch of the King Archon.
EUTHYPHRO: Why have you left the Lyceum,...
Plato: “Meno,”
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Plato: “The Republic”, Book Two, 380 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Meno, Socrates, A Slave of Meno (Boy), Anytus.
MENO: Can you tell...
Plato: "Meno,"
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Plato: “The Republic”, Book Two, 380 B.C.E.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Meno, Socrates, A Slave of Meno (Boy), Anytus.
MENO: Can you tell...