Ion (Plato)

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English-language translations of
el:Ἴων (Ion)
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In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession. It is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues

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English-language translations of el:Ἴων include:

Io, trans. by Floyer Sydenham (1804, c. 1759) (transcription project)
Ion, trans. by George Burges (1851) (transcription project)
Ion, trans. by William Whewell (1860) (transcription project)
Ion, trans. by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
Plato's Ion, or of the Iliad, trans. by Percy Shelley (1880) (transcription project)
Plato's Ion, literally translated, trans. by J. A. Prout (1892)
Ion, trans. by T. R. Mills (1899)
Ion, ed. by J. Thompson & T. R. Mills (1900)