Plato: 461 books

* Book : Timaeus * Biography * Bibliography Persons of the dialogue: Socrates; Critias; Timaeus; Hermocrates Socrates. One, two, three; but where, my dear Timaeus, is the fourth of those who were yesterday my guests and are to be my entertainers today? Timaeus. He has been taken ill,...

* Book : Gorgias * Biography * Bibliography Persons of the dialogue: Callicles; Socrates; Chaerephon; Gorgias; Polus Scene: The house of Callicles. Callicles. The wise man, as the proverb says, is late for a fray, but not for a feast. Socrates. And are we late for a feast? Callicles...

in Balliol College and in the University of Oxford who during fifty years have been the best of friends to me these volumes are inscribed in grateful recognition of their never failing attachment.

The Euthydemus, though apt to be regarded by us only as an elaborate jest, has also a very serious purpose. It may fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies...

From the kinds of trees standing at Great Dixter to the 20 deadliest flowers to the best small garden animals according to the Indiana Department of Agriculture—gardening is a pursuit with no end of information to sift through. Where does botany start but with the naming and grouping of all flora?...

In the sunless seaside town of Timbre, 13-year-old Jonathan learns that his real father is a werewolf. Worse, he's a stranger. Now "Jonny" must figure out how to break an ancient family curse that should have killed his father on the day he was born. Along the way, he falls in love with...

Yesterday evening I returned from the army at Potidaea, and having been a good while away, I thought that I should like to go and look at my old haunts. So I went into the palaestra of Taureas, which is over against the temple adjoining the porch of the King Archon, and there I found a number of persons,...

What is Friendship? Youthfulness and sense of beauty pervades, rich in the description of Greek life. The question is again raised of the relation of knowledge to virtue and good, which also recurs in the Laches; and Socrates appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and Menexenus. In...

A dialogue in which the nature of virtue is discussed.

Socrates, as he is younger than either Nicias or Laches, prefers to wait until they have delivered their opinions, which they give in a characteristic manner. Nicias, the tactician, is very much in favour of the new art, which he describes as the gymnastics of war—useful when the ranks are formed,...

L'Apologia di Socrate è un testo giovanile di Platone. Scritto tra il 399 e il 388 a.C., è la più credibile fonte di informazioni sul processo al vecchio filosofo ateniese. Il testo è uno scritto particolare, in quanto la narrazione non è in forma di dialogo tra due o più persone: sia Platone...

The Roaring Slug is a monthly anthology of short stories written by authors in the Humboldt County region of Northern California. Each volume will feature stories inspired by a central prompt which changes from one issue to the next. This month, the prompt is “returning home.” Though they all cater...

In the sunless seaside town of Timbre, 13-year-old Jonathan learns that his real father is a werewolf. Worse, he's a stranger. Now "Jonny" must figure out how to break an ancient family curse that should have killed his father on the day he was born. Along the way, he falls in love with a young...