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Plato (427 BCE – 347 BCE)

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Classical Greek philosopher, who together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture

Plato

Works

• The Dialogues of Plato translated into English with Analyses and Introductions by B. Jowett, M.A. in Five Volumes. 3rd edition revised and corrected (Oxford University Press, 1892)

Undisputed works of Plato

• Apology
• Charmides
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthydemus
• Euthyphro
• Gorgias
• Ion
• Laches
• Laws
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexenus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• Republic
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Symposium
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus

Works whose authenticity is debated

• Alcibiades I
• Greater Hippias (also translated by George Burges, Works vol. 4, 1851 [1])
• Clitophon (translated by George Burges, Works vol. 4, 1851 [2])
• Letters(translated by George Burges, Works vol. 4, 1851 [3])

Spurious works

• Alcibiades II
• Hipparchus (translated by W. R. M. Lamb, Loeb vol. 8, 1927 [4] [5]; George Burges, Works vol. 4, 1851 [6])
• Rival Lovers (translated by W. R. M. Lamb, Loeb vol. 8, 1927 [7] [8]; George Burges, Works vol. 4, 1851 [9])
• Minos (translated by W. R. M. Lamb, Loeb vol. 8, 1927 [10] [11]; George Burges, Works vol. 4, 1851 [12])
• Epinomis (translated by W. R. M. Lamb, Loeb vol. 8, 1927 [13] [14]; George Burges, Works vol. 6, 1854 [15] [16])
• Theages (translated by W. R. M. Lamb, Loeb vol. 8, 1927 [17] [18]; George Burges, Works vol. 4, 1851 [19])
• Eryxias

Spurious works variously included in other collections

• Axiochus (translated by George Burges, Works vol. 6, 1854 [20] [21])
• On Justice (translated by George Burges, Works vol. 6, 1854 [22] [23])
• On Virtue (translated by George Burges, Works vol. 6, 1854 [24] [25])
• Demodocus (translated by George Burges, Works vol. 6, 1854 [26] [27])
• Sisyphus (translated by George Burges, Works vol. 6, 1854 [28] [29])
• Definitions (translated by George Burges, Works vol. 6, 1854 [30] [31])
• Halcyon
• 18 Epigrams

Works about Plato

• "Socrates, Plato and the Roman Stoics", by Charles Pomeroy Parker, in The Harvard Classics Vol. 51 (1914)
• "Plato," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Plato and Platonism," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Plato", in Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, Volume 3, (1876)
• "Book III Plato," by Diogenes Laërtius, trans. Robert Drew Hicks, in Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (1925)