Portal:Socrates

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Socrates

Works

An enigmatic figure, Socrates made no writings, and is known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers writing after his lifetime, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. Other sources include the contemporaneous Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Aeschines of Sphettos. The playwright Aristophanes is the main contemporary author to have written plays mentioning Socrates during Socrates' lifetime, though a fragment of Ion of Chios' Travel Journal provides important information about Socrates' youth.

Platonic dialogues

See Plato (includes dubious authorship):

• Apology (Plato)
• Charmides (Plato)
• Cratylus
• Critias
• Crito
• Euthydemus
• Euthyphro
• Gorgias
• Ion (Plato)
• Laches
• Lesser Hippias
• Lysis
• Menexenus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Philebus
• Protagoras
• The Republic
• Statesman
• Symposium (Plato)
• Theaetetus
• Timaeus
• Alcibiades I
• Greater Hippias
• Epistles (Plato)
  • Epistles (Plato)/Seventh Letter
• Alcibiades II
• Theages
• Eryxias
• Axiochus

Xenophon

See Author:Xenophon:

• Apology (Xenophon)
• Hiero
• Oeconomicus
• Symposion (Xenophon)

Works about Socrates

Encyclopedia articles

• "Socrates," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (21) (1886)
• "Socrates," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Socrates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Socrates (2)," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Socrates," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)

Other works

• (423 BC) "Clouds" by Aristophanes
• (3rd century work, 1925 translation) Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book II by Diogenes Laërtius
• (1833) "On the Worth of Socrates as a Philosopher", trans. by Connop Thirlwall in The Philological Museum, Vol. II.: 538–555 from the German of Friedrich Schleiermacher
• (1841) "The Concept of Irony" by Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
• (1892) Philebus by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett
• (1895) The trial and death of Socrates, by Frederick John Church (transcription project)
• (1903) "Socrates" by Florence Earle Coates
• (1905) The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 2: "Condemnation and Death of Socrates" by Rossiter Johnson
• (1914) "Socrates, Plato and the Roman Stoics", by Charles Pomeroy Parker, in The Harvard Classics Vol. 51

See also

• Portal:Ancient Greek philosophy

Some or all works listed in this portal were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.