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The Best Complete Plato: Public Domain Classics

Author Plato, Mark Andre Alexander, Plotinus, Proclus, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, Plutarch
Publisher The School of Pythagoras
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ISBN / ASINB011VSRA84
ISBN-13978B011VSRA84
Sales Rank1,138,547
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BENEFITS of this unique edition: 1) 7,000 pages, 2) Intelligent dual-level hyperlinks, 3) Two or three translators for 26 dialogues, 4) All dubious and spurious dialogues included, 5) Ancient commentaries on Plato, including:
- Aristophanes’ Clouds
- Timaeus of Locri’s On the World and the Soul
- Plutarch’s On the Daemon of Socrates
- Xenophon’s Memorabilia, Symposium, Economist, and Apology
- Excerpts from Aristotle’s works that mention Socrates or Plato
- Cicero’s On the Orator
- Apuleius’s The Doctrine of Plato
- Diogenes Laertius’s Life of Plato
- Plotinus’s The Enneads (regarded as the founder of Neoplatonism)
- Proclus’s On the Theology of Plato
- Proclus's Commentary on the Timaeus
- Proclus's Commentary on the First Alcibiades
- Proclus's Commentary on the Cratylus (excerpts)
- Olympiodorus’s Life of Plato
19th-century commentaries include:
- Benjamin Jowett's introductions and essays
- Thomas Taylor’s “Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato”
- Walter Pater’s Plato and Platonism
Also included: Extracts from William Smith’s A Smaller History of Greece
For readability, most editorial comments and annotations have been removed. English has been Americanized, some archaic words updated, Roman god names converted to Greek except where planet names are used.

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