Traditional attribution
Letter IV (to Dion)
Ἐπιστολή Δ
A short letter to Dion on the eve or in the course of his expedition against Dionysius II: it urges him to surpass all in virtue and warns him that arrogance is the companion of solitude.
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Authorship note
Disputed. Its authenticity is debated; many consider it spurious.
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 II (to Dionysius II)
- Letter III (to Dionysius II)
- 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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