Major Works

• Protagoras and Meno

  - Recommended translation: Plato: "Protagoras" and "Meno,"  trans. Robert C. Bartlett (Cornell, 2004).
  From the Publisher: This volume contains new translations of two dialogues of Plato, the Protagoras and the Meno, together with explanatory notes and substantial interpretive essays. Robert C. Bartlett’s translations are as literal as is compatible… More

Other Works

• Euthydemus

  - Recommended translations: "Euthydemus," trans. S. Lombardo in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997). "Euthydemus." trans. G. McBrayer and M. Nichols in Plato: Euthydemus. Ed. D. Schaeffer (Focus, 2011)
  Excerpt: Crito Who was it, Socrates, that you were talking with yesterday at the Lyceum? Why, there was such a crowd standing about you that when I came up in the hope of listening I could hear nothing distinctly: still, by craning over I got a glimpse, and… More

Commentary

• A Commentary on Plato’s Meno

  - Klein, Jacob, A Commentary on Plato's Meno, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
  Excerpt: In the past, for long stretches of time, writing commentaries was a way of expounding the truth. It still may be that. But how about commentaries on Platonic dialogues? Must they not be based on a variety of preconceptions and predecisions, on a vast… More

• On the Euthydemus

  - Strauss, Leo, "On the Euthydemus," Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983, 67-88.
  Excerpt: From the Crito we are led to the Euthydemus by the consideration that the Euthydemus contains the only other conversation between Socrates and Kriton. The two dialogues stand indeed as opposite poles. The Euthydemus is the most bantering, not to… More