Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)

A giant of the ancient literary world, Plato has shaped the works of many other great minds. This erudite collection offers all of Plato’s works, including each and every one of the apocrypha texts, as well as all of Plato’s original Greek texts. There are many other Plato collections available for the EReader, which is why we have made our edition particularly special, with bonus biographies, a scholarly criticism section and numerous other bonus features. (Version 1)







Features:




* ALL of the dialogues, with excellent formatting




* ALL of the spurious works in English translation, including texts often missed out of other collections




* individual contents tables for the longer dialogues, enabling you to navigate the texts with ease




* concise introductions for all of the works, giving valuable contextual information




* includes Plato’s epigrams and epistles




* many of the translations have also appeared in the famous Loeb Classical Library editions of Plato




* special Greek pronunciation pages – experience the true sound of Plato’s 2500 year-old wisdom!




* numerous images relating to Plato, his works and the places he lived in




* even includes a special criticism section, with scholarly works assessing Plato’s contribution to the philosophical world




* boasts three biographies by classical writers – explore Plato’s adventurous life!




* includes Diogenes Laërtius’s famous biography




* scholarly ordering of texts, with a front no-nonsense master table of contents




* this truly is the Complete Plato, for all lovers of Hellenic literature. This is your chance to own the wisdom of Socrates and his famous pupil in ONE single file.







CONTENTS:







The Dialogues




Euthyphro




Apology




Crito




Hippias Major




Hippias Minor




First Alcibiades




Charmides




Laches




Lysis




Ion




Phaedo




Cratylus




Euthydemus




Protagoras




Gorgias




Meno




Menexenus




Symposium




The republic




Phaedrus




Parmenides




Theaetetus




Clitophon




Timaeus




Critias




Sophist




Statesman




Philebus




Laws







The Spurious Works




Second Alcibiades




Hipparchus




The Rival Lovers




Theages




Minos




Epinomis




Sisyphus




Axiochus




Demodocus




Eryxias




Halcyon




On justice




On virtue




Definitions




Epigrams







The Epistles




List of Epistles







The Greek Texts




Pronouncing Ancient Greek




List of Greek Texts







The criticism




Plato and Platonism BY Walter Horatio Pater




Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato BY Thomas Taylor




Extract from ‘Representative Men’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson




Plato: little journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard







The Biographies




Plato: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius




The life of Plato by Hesychius of Miletus




The Life of Plato by Olympiodorus



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