Benjamin Jowett: 52 books

The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work supply the only, and perhaps a sufficient, proof of its genuineness. The plan is simple; the dramatic interest...

* Book : Apology * Biography (The) Apology (of Socrates) is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities". "Apology" here has its earlier...

Plato's dialogue on the nature language and words.

Plato's dialogue on the nature of the physical world and humankind.

Plato's dialogue addressing the ideal of virtue, and particular virtues such as justice and temperance.

Plato's dialogue between Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, in which the nature of divinity is argued, together with a young Socrates.

Plato's longest dialogue is a philosophical discussion on the nature of politics, government and ethics.

A dialogue of Plato addressing the true nature of rhetoric, and in which he argues that philosophy is an art.

Plato's dialogue on the nature of a sophist, and the differences between them and statesmen and politicians. Includes and inttoduction and analysis.

This 1906 collection brings together the eminent Victorian classicist’s essays on the Epistles of St. Paul, which were controversial in their day. Includes “On the Character of St. Paul,” “On St. Paul and the Twelve,” “On Conversion and Changes of Character,” “On Casuistry,” “On Natural Religion,” “On Righteousness by Faith,” and “On Atonement and Satisfaction.”

* Book : Meno * Biography * Bibliography Persons of the dialogue: Meno; Socrates; A slave of Meno; Anytus Meno. Can you tell me, Socrates, whether virtue is acquired by teaching or by practice; or if neither by teaching nor practice, then whether it comes to man by nature, or in what...

* Book : Phaedo * Biography * Bibliography Persons of the dialogue:Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius Socrates Apollodorus Simmias Cebes Crito Attendant of the prison Scene: The Prison of Socrates Place of the narration: Phlius Echecrates....

* Book : Protagoras * Biography * Bibliography The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias 'the man who had spent more upon the Sophists...

* Book : Symposium * Biography * Bibliography Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew. For in philosophy...