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Halcyon — Plato

Traditional attribution

Halcyon

Ἀλκυών

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

Walking by the sea, Socrates and Chaerephon hear the cry of the halcyon and Socrates tells the myth of Alcyone, transformed into a bird. From there he moves to a reflection on the limits of human knowledge before the power of the gods to transform nature.

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Authorship note

Spurious (Appendix Platonica): also transmitted among Lucian's works; Diogenes Laertius (III 62), citing Favorinus, ascribes it to one Leon, and Athenaeus (XI 506c) to Leon the Academic.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Plato: Complete Works — Plato

    Plato: Complete Works

    Hackett, 1997

    Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)

    ISBN 0872203492

    Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas

Other works by Plato

Sources

  • Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).

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