Recommended translation: "Apology" in Four Texts on Socrates, trans. Thomas G. West and Grace Starry West (Cornell University Press: 1984, rev. 1998).
Gorgias
Recommended Translation: The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus, trans. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
Laws
Recommended translation: The Laws of Plato, trans. Thomas L. Pangle (Basic, 1980; University of Chicago Press, 1988).
Timaeus
Recommended translation: Timaeus, trans. Peter Kalkavage (Focus, 2001).
Phaedo
Recommended translations: Phaedo, trans. G. M. A. Grube (Hackett: 1977) Phaedo, trans. E. Brann (Focus, 1998)
Theaetetus
Recommended translation: "Theaetetus" in The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, trans. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press: 1984).
Sophist
Recommended translation: "Sophist" in The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, trans. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press: 1984).
Statesman
Recommended translation: "Statesman" in The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, trans. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press: 1984).
Parmenides
Recommended translations:
- Plato's Parmenides, trans. Samuel Scolnicov (Berkeley, 2003).
- Plato's Parmenides, trans. Albert Keith Whitaker (Focus, 1996).
- "Parmenides," trans. M. L. Gill and Paul Ryan in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).
Symposium
Recommended translations:
- Plato's Symposium: A Translation with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete, trans. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 1993, 2001).
- "Symposium," trans. A. Nehamas and P. Woodruff in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).
Republic
Recommended translations:
- The Republic of Plato, trans. Allan Bloom (Basic Books, 1968).
- Plato: The Republic, trans. Tom Griffith, ed. G. R. F. Ferrari (Cambridge, 2000).
Protagoras and Meno
Recommended translation: Plato: "Protagoras" and "Meno," trans. Robert C. Bartlett (Cornell, 2004).