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Plato Bibliography

Socrates and Plato: Recommended Readings

Recommended Journals

  • Ancient Philosophy

  • Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP)

  • Phronesis

    Books and Anthologies

  • Julia Annas, An Introduction to Plato's Republic (Oxford, 1991).
  • Aristophanes, The Clouds.
  • Hugh Benson, Ed., Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (Oxford, 1992).**
  • T.C. Brickhouse and N. Smith, Socrates on Trial (Oxford, 1989).
  • Malcolm Brown, Ed., Plato's Meno: Text and Essays (Bobbs-Merrill, 1971)
  • F.M. Cornford, Plato's Cosmology (London, 1937).
  • Charles Griswold, Jr., Ed., Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings (Routledge, 1988).
  • Terence Irwin, Plato's Ethics (Oxford, 1995).**
  • Richard Kraut, Socrates and the State (Princeton, 1984).
  • Mary Margaret Mackenzie, Plato on Punishment (California, 1981).
  • Alexander Nehamas, "Meno's Paradox and Socrates as a Teacher," in OSAP 1985; also in Benson, ch. 16.
  • Gregory Vlastos, Ed., The Philosophy of Socrates (Anchor, 1971).
  • -----Plato: A Collection of Critical Essays. Volume I: Metaphysics and Epistemology. Volume II: Ethics. (Anchor, 1971).
  • -----Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Cambridge, 1991).**
  • -----Socratic Studies (Cambridge, 1994)
  • ----Platonic Studies (Princeton, 1973/1981).
  • Nicholas White, Plato on Knowledge and Reality (Hackett, 1976).
  • Xenophon, Memorabilia.

    • **these books have especially useful bibliographies.

    General

  • Terence Irwin, Classical Thought (Oxford, 1989)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
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    February 7, 1996