Other Works

• Critias

  - Recommended translation: "Critias," trans. D. Clay in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).
  Excerpt: Timaeus How gladly do I now welcome my release, Socrates, from my protracted discourse, even as a traveller who takes his rest after a long journey! And I make my prayer to that God who has recently been created by our speech (although in reality… More

Commentary

• Socrates’ Positive Teaching

  - Zuckert, Catherine H., "Socrates' Positive Teaching," Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 281-419.
  Excerpt: In the Apology Socrates says that, in response to the oracle’s paradoxical pronouncement that there was no one wiser than he, he went first to question the politicians because they claimed to know what is good. But in the first conversations… More

• Timaeus-Critias: Completing or Challenging Socratic Political Philosophy?

  - Zuckert, Catherine H., "Timaeus-Critias: Completing or Challenging Socratic Political Philosophy?," Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 420-81.
  Excerpt: Socrates concluded his discussion of the city in speech, which he proposed in the Republic, by observing that it did not matter whether this city ever actually came into being, because it would serve as “a paradigm laid up in heaven for the… More