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Letter VI (to Hermias, Erastus and Coriscus) — Plato

Traditional attribution

Letter VI (to Hermias, Erastus and Coriscus)

Ἐπιστολή Ϛ

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

Addressed to Hermias, ruler of Atarneus, and to the Academics Erastus and Coriscus, his neighbours at Scepsis, it urges them to mutual friendship and ends with a solemn oath by the god who rules all things and by the Father of the guide and cause.

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Authorship note

Disputed. Part of scholarship accepts it as genuine; another part rejects it.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Plato's Letters: The Political Challenges of the Philosophic Life

    Cornell University Press, 2023

    ISBN 9781501772894

  • 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 IX: Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles — Plato

    Plato IX: Timaeus, Critias, Cleitophon, Menexenus, Epistles

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1981

    Translation: R. G. Bury

    ISBN 9780674992573

    Loeb Classical Library 234, bilingüe (1.ª ed. 1929; reimpresión)

  • The Epistles

    Henry G. Bohn (Londres), 1855

    Translation: George Burges

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

Español

  • Cartas

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 11; traducción de dominio público

  • Diálogos VII: Dudosos, apócrifos, cartas

    Gredos, 1992

    ISBN 9788424914783

    Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 162; trad. de Juan Zaragoza (dudosos y cartas) y Pilar Gómez Cardó (apócrifos)

  • Cartas

    Akal, 2006

    ISBN 9788446001768

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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