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Laches — Plato

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Laches

Λάχης

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

Two fathers ask the generals Laches and Nicias whether their sons should learn to fight in armour. The conversation turns to what courage is: endurance of soul, knowledge of what is to be feared and dared… no definition holds and all admit they still need to learn. A pure example of the aporetic dialogue.

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

Editions and translations

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English

  • Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno — Plato

    Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno

    Oxford University Press (Oxford World's Classics), 2009

    Translation: Robin Waterfield

    ISBN 9780199555666

  • 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

  • Laches and Charmides — Plato

    Laches and Charmides

    Hackett, 1992

    Translation: Rosamond Kent Sprague

    ISBN 9780872201347

  • Plato II: Laches, Protagoras, Meno, Euthydemus

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1924

    Translation: W. R. M. Lamb

    ISBN 9780674991835

    Loeb Classical Library 165, bilingüe

  • Laches

    Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

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

Español

  • Laques o del valor

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 1; 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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