The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters, with Introduction and Prefatory Notes (Princeton's Bollingen Series LXXI [71])

Plato; Hamilton, Edith; Cairns, Huntington; Cooper, Lane; Cornford, F.M.; Guthrie, W.K.C.; Hackforth, R.; Joyce, Michael; Jowett, Benjamin; Post, L.A.; Rouse, W.H.D.; Shorey, Paul; Skemp, J.B.; Taylor, A.E.; Tredennick, Hugh; Woodhead, W.D.; Wright, J.

ISBN 10: 0691097186 / ISBN 13: 9780691097183

Published by Bollingen Series / Princeton University Press, 1963

About this Item

1966 fourth printing, incorporating the 1963 corrections to the second printing. Includes publisher's slipcase and jacket. Some ink underlining, highlighting, and marginalia, front jacket panel smudged, minor wear to jacker corners with small chip from jacket spine base, slipcase edges faded, ink name and date inside slipcase opening, ink number on rear slipcase panel, ink name on front endpaper. xxv, 1743 pp. This was, at the time of its publication, the only complete one-volume edition of Plato in English translation. Contents include: Editorial Note; Introduction; Socrates' Defense (Apology); Crito; Phaedo; Charmides; Laches; Lysis; Euthyphro; Menexenus; Lesser Hippias; Ion; Gorgias; Protagoras; Meno; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Symposium; Republic; Theaetetus; Parmenides; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; Timaeus; Critias; Laws; Appendix: Epinomis; Greater Hippias; Letters; Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters, with Introduction and Prefatory Notes (Princeton's Bollingen Series LXXI [71])
• Publisher: Bollingen Series / Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691097186
• ISBN 13: 9780691097183
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 4th Printing.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

"The Platonic Forms of the Platonic dialogues."—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex

A landmark one-volume edition of the complete Plato in classic translations

This is a classic one-volume edition of all the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic. The editors, Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, chose the contents from the work of the best modern British and American translators. The volume contains prefatory notes to each dialogue, by Hamilton; an introductory essay on Plato’s philosophy and writings, by Cairns; and a comprehensive index with cross references to assist the reader with the philosophical vocabulary of the different translators.

About the Author

Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) was perhaps the most famous and influential classicist of the twentieth century. Her bestselling Mythology remains a standard version of the stories of the ancient world. Huntington Cairns (1904–1985) was a writer and lawyer who worked at different times for the U.S. Treasury, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and Johns Hopkins University.