Other Works

• Lesser Hippias

  - Recommended translations:
  • "Lesser Hippias," trans. J. Leake in The Roots of Political Philosophy, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Cornell, 1987).
  • "Lesser Hippias," trans. N. Smith in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).
  Excerpt: Eudicus Why, then, are you silent, Socrates, when Hippias has been delivering such a fine display? Why do you not join us in praising some part of his speech, or else, if he seems to you to have been wrong in any point, refute him—especially now… More

Commentary

• Introduction to the Lesser Hippias

  - Leake, James, "Introduction to the Lesser Hippias," The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, 300-06.
  Excerpt: The major interlocutor of Socrates in this dialogue is Hippias, one of the most renowned sophists at the end of the fifth century. His fellows citizens at Elis, the small city in the northwestern Peloponese, chose him on numerous occasions to… More