Other Works

• Greater Hippias

  - Recommended translations:
  • "Greater Hippias," trans. D. R. Sweet in The Roots of Political Philosophy, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Cornell, 1987).
  • "Greater Hippias," trans. P. Woodruff  in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).
  Excerpt: Socrates Hippias, beautiful and wise, what a long time it is since you have put in at the port of Athens! Hippias I am too busy, Socrates. For whenever Elis needs to have any business transacted with any of the states, she always comes to me first… More

Commentary

• The Being of the Beautiful

  - Benardete, Seth, The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, xi-xlix.
  Excerpt: A bibliography of Platonic studies for the years 1958-75 lists 3,326 items; of these 102 are indexed as dealing with the Theaetetus, 188 with the Sophist, and 21 with the Statesman. Since the difficulties of the Statesman, as to its plan and… More

• On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues

  - Bruell, Christopher, On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
  Excerpt: Nothing is so well established in our Western democracies today as the right of each to seek happiness in his or her own way. It is as if a pass to that effect had been issued to us at birth. This much is obvious. Less obvious is the fact that… More

• 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.
  First lines: Why should we bother to understand Plato? The reason is that he is an intelligent man who offers the first comprehensive rational reflection on human affairs, happiness, and its connection to politics. Much of what he says is therefore likely to… More