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