Lesesaal

Epigrams

Plato

Brief poems, mostly amatory or funerary, set under Plato's name: to Aster ('You gaze at the stars, my star'), to Dion, to Agathon, to Archeanassa, and the epitaph of the Eretrians deported to Persia. They recall the tradition that Plato wrote poetry before he met Socrates.