Traditional attribution
Letter II (to Dionysius II)
Ἐπιστολή Β
It contains two famous passages: the 'riddle' about the King of all things, around whom all things are (312e), which the Neoplatonists read as a theology of three principles, and the claim that there is and will be no writing of Plato, since those bearing his name belong to 'a Socrates become beautiful and young' (314c).
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Authorship note
Spurious according to the great majority of scholars. It is regarded as an ancient forgery, though it was much read by the Platonists.
Editions and translations
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English
Plato
Plato's Letters: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
The Conscious LibraryPlato's Letters: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life
Cornell University Press, 2023
ISBN 9781501772894
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
The Epistles
The Conscious LibraryThe Epistles
Henry G. Bohn (Londres), 1855
Translation: George Burges
The Works of Plato, Bohn's Classical Library, vol. 4; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
Cartas
The Conscious LibraryCartas
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 11; traducción de dominio público
Plato
Diálogos VII: Dudosos, apócrifos, cartas
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos VII: Dudosos, apócrifos, cartas
Gredos, 1992
ISBN 9788424914783
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 162; trad. de Juan Zaragoza (dudosos y cartas) y Pilar Gómez Cardó (apócrifos)
Plato
Cartas
The Conscious LibraryCartas
Akal, 2006
ISBN 9788446001768
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
- Menexenus · 386
- Clitophon
- Republic · 375
- Timaeus · 360
- Critias · 360
- Minos
- Laws · 350
- Epinomis · 345
- Letter I (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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