Delphi Complete Works of Plato

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 Kindle, 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