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Hippias Major — Plato

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Hippias Major

Ἱππίας μείζων

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

The sophist Hippias of Elis, pleased with his successes, is questioned by Socrates on what the beautiful (to kalon) is. Definitions are tried — a beautiful maiden, gold, the appropriate, the useful, the pleasure of sight and hearing — and all fail. It ends with the proverbial phrase: 'beautiful things are difficult'.

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Disputed. Its authenticity was denied by much of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century scholarship; today most tend to accept it as an early work of Plato, but there is still no consensus.

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

  • Plato IV: Cratylus, Parmenides, Greater Hippias, Lesser Hippias

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1926

    Translation: Harold North Fowler

    ISBN 9780674991859

    Loeb Classical Library 167, bilingüe

  • Hippias Major

    Henry G. Bohn (Londres), 1855

    Translation: George Burges

    The Works of Plato, Bohn's Classical Library, vol. 4; traducción de dominio público

Español

  • El primer Hipias o de lo bello

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 2; traducción de dominio público

  • Diálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras

    Gredos, 1985

    ISBN 9788424900816

    Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 37 (1.ª ed. 1981); introducción general de Emilio Lledó

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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