Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates

This 1865 study confirmed George Grote as one of the greatest nineteenth-century authorities on Plato.

George Grote (Author)

9781108009621, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

612 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.5 cm, 0.77 kg

Best known for his influential History of Greece, the historian and politician George Grote (1794–1871) wrote this account of Plato's dialogues as a philosophical supplement to the History. First published in 1865 and written in dialogic form, Grote's account of Plato's works includes substantial footnotes and marginalia. This first volume focuses on Plato's early and transitional dialogues, all of which feature Socrates. It also includes a preface to the whole project which discusses the meaning and importance of philosophy itself, and extensive introductory material on pre-Socratic philosophy, the life of Plato and history of the Platonic canon. With three volumes each running to over six hundred pages, Grote's scholarship is formidably comprehensive. The publication of Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates confirmed him as one of the greatest authorities on Plato in the nineteenth century.

Preface
1. Speculative philosophy in Greece, before and in the time of Sokrates
2. General remarks on the earlier philosophers
3. Life of Plato
4. Platonic canon, as recognised by Thrasyllus
5. Platonic canon as appreciated and modified by modern critics
6. Platonic compositions generally
7. Apology of Sokrates
8. Kriton
9. Euthyphron
10. Alkibiades I and II
11. Hippias Major and Hippias Minor
12. Hipparchus – Minos
13. Theages
14. Erastae or Anterastae – Rivales
15. Ion
16. Laches
17. Charmides
18. Lysis
19. Euthydemus.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA]