Other Works

• Menexenus

  - Recommended Translation: "Menexenus," trans. Devin Stauffer and Susan Collins in Empire and the Ends of Politics (Focus, 1999).  
  Excerpt: Socrates From the agora, Menexenus, or where from? Menexenus From the agora, Socrates, and the Council Chamber. Socrates And what was it took you specially to the Council Chamber? But of course it was because you deem yourself to be at the end of… More

Commentary

• 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