Author:Plato

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Plato
(427 BCE/428 BCE – 347 BCE)

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

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Undisputed works of Plato edit

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The Works of Plato Abrig'd translated from the French of Anne Dacier by Unknown (1701) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
Works of Plato his first fifty-five dialogues translated from the Greek by Floyer Sydenham and Thomas Taylor in Five Volumes. (1804) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
The works of Plato; a new literal version, chiefly from the text of Stallbaum translated into English by Henry Cary (Vol. 1), Henry Davis (Vol. 2) and George Burges (Vol. 3-6) (1850-54). (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers translated into English by William Whewell, in Three Volumes, of which the 1st had two editions published (1859-61). (transcription project)
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) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Works about Plato edit

Plato (1865), by John Stuart Mill
Plato (1874), by Clifton Wilbraham Collins
"Plato", in Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, Volume 3, (1876)
"Plato," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Socrates, Plato and the Roman Stoics", by Charles Pomeroy Parker, in The Harvard Classics Vol. 51 (1914)
"Plato and Platonism," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
"Book III Plato," by Diogenes Laërtius, trans. Robert Drew Hicks, in Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (1925)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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