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Apology
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Socrates' speech in his own defence at his trial in Athens in 399 BC, on charges of impiety and of corrupting the young.
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Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Three works on the last days of Socrates: his defence at his trial, his refusal to escape from prison, and his final conversation on the soul.
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Charmides
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates, back in Athens from the army, asks the young Charmides and his guardian Critias what temperance is.
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Cratylus
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
Hermogenes and Cratylus ask Socrates to settle their dispute: are the names of things correct by nature or only by convention?
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Critias
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Critias begins the story of a war between ancient Athens and the island power of Atlantis. The dialogue breaks off unfinished.
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Crito
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
In prison, awaiting execution, Socrates is urged by his friend Crito to escape, and argues about whether it would be right.
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Euthydemus
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates tells Crito about his encounter with two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who claim to refute anything anyone says.
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Euthyphro
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
On his way to answer the charge of impiety, Socrates meets Euthyphro, who is prosecuting his own father, and asks him what piety is.
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Gorgias
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates questions the famous teacher Gorgias about what rhetoric is, and then argues with Polus and Callicles about power, justice and how to live.
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Ion
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Socrates asks Ion, a prize-winning reciter of Homer, whether his skill comes from knowledge or from inspiration.
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Laches
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Two fathers ask the generals Laches and Nicias how to educate their sons, and Socrates turns the conversation to the question of what courage is.
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Laws
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
An Athenian, a Cretan and a Spartan, walking in Crete, discuss the laws that a new colony should be given.
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Lysis
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
At a wrestling school, Socrates talks with the boys Lysis and Menexenus about what makes someone a friend.
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Menexenus
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates recites to Menexenus a funeral speech for the Athenian war dead, which he says he learned from Aspasia.
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Meno
Plato
Ancient · Introductory
Meno asks Socrates whether virtue can be taught, and Socrates replies that they must first find out what virtue is.
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Parmenides
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
The young Socrates presents his theory of forms to the philosophers Parmenides and Zeno, and Parmenides raises objections to it.
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Phaedo
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Phaedo recounts the last day of Socrates' life, spent in prison discussing with his friends whether the soul survives death.
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Phaedrus
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Walking outside the walls of Athens, Socrates and Phaedrus exchange speeches about love and then discuss what makes speaking and writing good.
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Philebus
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
Socrates and Protarchus debate whether pleasure or wisdom has the better claim to be the good for human beings.
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Protagoras
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates takes a young friend to meet the famous sophist Protagoras, and the two argue over whether virtue can be taught.
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Sophist
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
A visitor from Elea sets out, with the young Theaetetus, to define what a sophist is.
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Statesman
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
The visitor from Elea, continuing from the Sophist, works with a younger Socrates to define the statesman and the art of ruling.
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Symposium
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
At a dinner in the house of the poet Agathon, the guests agree that each will give a speech in praise of love.
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The Dialogues of Plato in Five Volumes, Vol. 2 (of 5)
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
The second of five volumes of Plato's dialogues in Benjamin Jowett's English translation, each dialogue with the translator's introduction.
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The Republic
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates and his companions ask what justice is, and build in conversation the plan of a just city to find the answer.
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The Republic of Plato
Plato
Ancient · Intermediate
Socrates and his companions ask what justice is, and build in conversation the plan of a just city to find the answer.
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The Works of Plato (Vol. 1 of 6)
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
The first of six volumes of an English translation of Plato's works, with the dialogues given in full.
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Theaetetus
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
Socrates asks the young mathematician Theaetetus a single question: what is knowledge?
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Timaeus
Plato
Ancient · Advanced
Timaeus gives an account of how the universe, the soul and the human body were made by a divine craftsman.
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