Plato (Πλάτων)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading)

In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals of late 5th century Athens. The men are one their second night of celebration...

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Ancient

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Theaetetus

Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: Θεαίτητος) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind to a piece of wax and is critical of lawyers who seek only to persuade....

Geoffrey Edwards 3 hours 31 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Parmenides

Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plurality and the One. — Summary by Geoffrey Edwards

Geoffrey Edwards 2 hours 13 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Protagoras

Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The...

Kevin Johnson 3 hours 15 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Lesser Hippias

This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in the canon. Socrates tempted by irony to deflate the pretentious know-it-all...

Kevin Johnson 1 hour 8 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Critias

This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed...

Kevin Johnson 1 hour 6 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Alcibiades I

As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The Alcibiades 1 appears to be a short work by Plato with only two characters:...

Kevin Johnson 2 hours 15 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Republic (version 2)

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Plato's best-known work and has proven...

Bob Neufeld 12 hours 27 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Phaedo

Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the...

Bob Neufeld 3 hours 3 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Laws

Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's...

Geoffrey Edwards 17 hours 12 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Apology

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully defended himself in 399 BC against the charges of «corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the...

Bob Neufeld 1 hour 19 minutes

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Meno

Meno (Ancient Greek: Μένων) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather...

Chiquito Crasto 2 hours 24 minutes

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