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)

9781108009638, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

656 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3.7 cm, 0.82 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 second volume covers the transitional and middle dialogues including Gorgias and Symposium, as well as some of the later works. Grote includes apocryphal works, as he relied on the order and classification of Plato's works specified by the ancient Greek scholar Thrasyllus of Mendes. 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.

20. Menon
21. Protagoras
22. Gorgias
23. Phaedon
24. Phaedrus - Symposion
25. Parmenides
26. Theaetetus
27. Sophistes – Politikus
28. Politikus
29. Ktaylus
30. Philebus
Index.

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