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)

9781108014984, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 July 2010

712 pages
21.6 x 14 x 4 cm, 0.89 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, Grote's account of Plato's works includes substantial footnotes and marginalia. This third volume contains discussion of Menexenus, Kleitophon, Timaeus and Kritias, as well as extensive coverage of the Republic and the Laws. It also contains the index to all three volumes, originally issued separately. 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.

31. Menexenus
32. Kleitophon
33. Platonic Republic - abstract
34. Republic - remarks on its main themes
35. Republic - remarks on the Platonic commonwealth
36. Timaeus and Kritias
37. Leges and Epinomis
38. Other companions of Sokrates
39. Xenophon
Index.

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