Written work
Hippias Minor
Ἱππίας ἐλάττων
After a display by Hippias on Homer, Socrates asks who is better, Achilles or the wily Odysseus, and leads the sophist to the paradoxical conclusion that one who errs voluntarily is better than one who does so involuntarily. The dialogue leaves the paradox open, as a provocation about the relation between knowledge and virtue.
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Authorship note
Authentic: an Aristotelian reference (Metaphysics V 29, 1025a6) supports it, and it is now hardly disputed.
Editions and translations
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English
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
Plato IV: Cratylus, Parmenides, Greater Hippias, Lesser Hippias
The Conscious LibraryPlato 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
Plato
Lesser Hippias
The Conscious LibraryLesser Hippias
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., apéndice I; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
Segundo Hipias o de la mentira
The Conscious LibrarySegundo Hipias o de la mentira
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 11; traducción de dominio público
Plato
Diálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos 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
- 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
- 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 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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