Socrates
Lesser Hippias
Recorded oral teaching
Lesser Hippias
Ἱππίας ἐλάττων
After a display by the sophist Hippias of Elis, Socrates argues over whether Achilles or Odysseus is the better Homeric hero and reaches the paradoxical thesis that whoever errs voluntarily is better than whoever errs involuntarily. It is a provocative exercise that presupposes the Socratic conviction that no one does wrong knowingly.
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Authorship note
A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him.
Editions and translations
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English
Socrates
Lesser Hippias
The Conscious LibraryLesser Hippias
Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
Segundo Hipias o de la mentira (argumento y facsímil)
The Conscious LibrarySegundo Hipias o de la mentira (argumento y facsímil)
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 11 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.
Socrates
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 (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 37), 1981
Translation: J. Calonge Ruiz, E. Lledó Íñigo y C. García Gual
ISBN 9788424900816
Introducción general de Emilio Lledó.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).
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