Written work
Menexenus
Μενέξενος
Socrates recites to Menexenus a funeral oration for Athenians fallen in war which, he says, Aspasia, Pericles' companion, taught him. It is at once an example of the genre and a parody of the patriotic rhetoric that embellishes Athenian history. The speech reaches as far as the King's Peace (386 BC).
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Authorship note
Authentic according to most: Aristotle cites it (Rhetoric I 9 and III 14). Its parodic tone and the anachronism of making Aspasia speak of events after Socrates' death led some nineteenth-century critics to doubt it.
Editions and translations
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English
Plato
Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras
The Conscious LibraryGorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras
Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought), 2010
Translation: Tom Griffith; ed. Malcolm Schofield
ISBN 9780521546003
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
Plato IX: Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1981
Translation: R. G. Bury
ISBN 9780674992573
Loeb Classical Library 234, bilingüe (1.ª ed. 1929; reimpresión)
Plato
Menexenus
The Conscious LibraryMenexenus
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., apéndice I; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
Menexenes o la oración fúnebre
The Conscious LibraryMenexenes o la oración fúnebre
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 2; traducción de dominio público
Plato
Diálogos II: Gorgias, Menéxeno, Eutidemo, Menón, Crátilo
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos II: Gorgias, Menéxeno, Eutidemo, Menón, Crátilo
Gredos, 1997
ISBN 9788424908874
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 61
Other works by Plato
- Euthyphro · 395
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 380
- Cratylus · 385
- Theaetetus · 368
- Sophist · 360
- Statesman · 360
- Parmenides · 370
- Philebus · 355
- Symposium · 380
- Phaedrus · 370
- Alcibiades I
- Alcibiades II
- Hipparchus
- Rival Lovers (Lovers)
- Theages
- Charmides · 390
- Laches · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Euthydemus · 385
- Protagoras · 390
- Gorgias · 387
- Meno · 385
- Hippias Major · 390
- Hippias Minor · 395
- Ion · 395
- Clitophon
- Republic · 375
- Timaeus · 360
- Critias · 360
- Minos
- Laws · 350
- Epinomis · 345
- Letter I (to Dionysius II)
- Letter II (to Dionysius II)
- Letter III (to Dionysius II)
- Letter IV (to Dion) · 357
- Letter V (to Perdiccas III of Macedon)
- Letter VI (to Hermias, Erastus and Coriscus)
- Letter VII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter VIII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter IX (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter X (to Aristodorus)
- Letter XI (to Laodamas)
- Letter XII (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter XIII (to Dionysius II)
- Definitions
- On Justice
- On Virtue
- Demodocus
- Sisyphus
- Halcyon
- Eryxias
- Axiochus
- Epigrams
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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