What is the best Plato translation?

Republic

• Which English translation of Plato’s Republic is best?
• The Republic translated by Desmond Lee with an introduction by Melissa Lane (Penguin Classics)
• Republic, translated by G M A Grube and revised by C D C Reeve (Hackett Classics)
• The Republic of Plato, edited by James Adam (Cambridge University Press), 2 vols.

Which translation of the republic is the best?

Bloom’s translation is phenomenal, though I like the translation by Joe Sachs the best personally. You can’t go wrong with Allen Bloom’s Republic. His translation is consistent and readable, while his footnotes helpfully nudge the reader to remember the subtleties of the original language.

In what order should I read Plato’s dialogues?

According to Iamblichus, for example, the First Alcibiades should be read first, then Gorgias, Phaedo, then Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, Phaedrus, Symposium, Philebus, and finally Timaeus and Parmenides.

What are the most important Plato dialogues?

He wrote a number of works, but the most important are Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, The Republic, Statesmen and The Laws.

• Apology was written after the death of Socrates in 399 BC.
• Crito, another work, was a kind of dialogue related to the trial and death of Socrates.

What is the best translation of Aristotle?

The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 & 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle.

What are Plato’s Middle dialogues?

The middle period works include the Cratylus, Symposium, Phaedo, Republic and perhaps the Phaedrus. In the post-Republic phase we then find the Parmenides, Theaetetus, Sophist, Politicus, Timaeus, Philebus and Laws, along with the Critias.

Is Plato’s Republic a hard read?

Plato’s Republic is the real deal. It’s going to be a challenge—it’s a challenge for everybody. But keep in mind that even people who have been reading Plato for years find him difficult, so difficulty shouldn’t be a reason not to give the Republic a go.

How many dialogues did Plato write?

The works that have been transmitted to us through the middle ages under the name of Plato consist in a set of 41 so-called “dialogues” plus a collection of 13 letters and a book of Definitions(1). But it was already obvious in antiquity that not all of these were from Plato’s own hand.

Where can I find a complete alphabetical list of Plato’s works?

A complete alphabetical list of all works by or attributed to Plato may be found at the end of note 3 in the contents description of the latest complete edition of their English translation (Hackett, 1997), or on the page of this site that provides links to Plato’s works on the Web.

Is there an English edition of Plato’s Complete Works?

The edition of Plato’s complete works in that collection started in 1920 and is now completed. All volumes are regularly reprinted. The English equivalent of this collection (though with generally less developed introductions and apparatus criticus) is the Loeb Classical Library , published by Harvard University Press.

Are the letters in Plato’s Iliad written from Plato?

The Definitions and most of the Letters (with a likely exception for the VIIth, as has already been said) are probably not from Plato either (3).