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Ion — Plato

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Ion

Ἴων

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

Socrates talks with Ion, a successful rhapsode who recites and expounds Homer. Since Ion cannot explain his art or apply it to other poets, Socrates concludes that he speaks not by skill but by divine inspiration: the Muse magnetises the poet, and he the rhapsode and the audience, like a magnet passing its force down a chain of rings.

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Authentic: modern scholarship accepts it almost unanimously as Plato's work.

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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 VIII: Statesman, Philebus, Ion — Plato

    Plato VIII: Statesman, Philebus, Ion

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1975

    Translation: Harold N. Fowler y W. R. M. Lamb

    ISBN 9780674991828

    Loeb Classical Library 164, bilingüe (1.ª ed. 1925; reimpresión)

  • Ion

    Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 1; traducción de dominio público

Español

  • Ion o de la poesía

    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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