Recommended translation: Plato. "Sophist." In The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, translated by Seth Benardete, 123–234. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
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Symposium
Recommended translations:
- Plato. Plato’s Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete. Translated by Seth Benardete. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Plato. "Symposium." Translated by A. Nehamas and P. Woodruff. In Plato: Complete Works, edited by J. M. Cooper, 457–505. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1997.
Republic
Recommended translations:
- Plato. The Republic of Plato. Translated by Allan Bloom. New York: Basic Books, 1968.
- Plato. The Republic. Translated by Tom Griffith. Edited by G. R. F. Ferrari. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Gorgias
Recommended Translation: Plato. The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus. Translated by Seth Benardete. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Apology
Recommended translation: Plato. "Apology." In Four Texts on Socrates, translated by Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West, 1–33. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984; revised edition, 1998.
Understanding Plato by Mark Blitz
Blitz, Mark "Understanding Plato: Beauty and the Greater Hippias," Paper delivered at the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University in October, 2011.
The Music of the Republic by Eva Brann
Brann, Eva. “The Music of the Republic.” In The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings, 108–245. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2004.
Plato’s “Laws” by Seth Benardete
Benardete, Seth, Plato's "Laws": The Discovery of Being, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Plato’s Statesman by Stanley Rosen
Rosen, Stanley, Plato's Statesman: Web of Politics, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
On Plato’s Apology of Socrates and Crito by Leo Strauss
Strauss, Leo. “On Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crito.” In Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, 68–97. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.