Written work
Laws
Νόμοι
Plato's longest and last work. An Athenian Stranger, the Cretan Clinias and the Spartan Megillus walk towards the cave of Zeus in Crete while they design the legislation of a new colony, Magnesia: education, music and choruses, marriage, property, magistracies, criminal law and theology, with preambles that persuade before commanding. No longer philosophers but law rules, watched over by a Nocturnal Council. Book X contains the first systematic proof of the existence of the gods.
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Authorship note
Authentic. According to Diogenes Laertius (III 37) it was left on wax tablets at Plato's death and copied out by Philip of Opus.
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 XI: Laws, Volume II: Books 7–12
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1984
Translation: R. G. Bury
ISBN 9780674992115
Loeb Classical Library 192, bilingüe (1.ª ed. 1926; reimpresión)
The Laws
Penguin Classics, 1970
Translation: Trevor J. Saunders
ISBN 9780140442229
Plato
Laws
The Conscious LibraryLaws
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 5; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
Las Leyes (tomos 9 y 10)
The Conscious LibraryLas Leyes (tomos 9 y 10)
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 9; traducción de dominio público
Las leyes
Akal, 1988
ISBN 9788476002674
Plato
Diálogos VIII: Leyes (libros I–VI)
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos VIII: Leyes (libros I–VI)
Gredos, 1999
ISBN 9788424922405
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 265
Plato
Diálogos IX: Leyes (libros VII–XII)
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos IX: Leyes (libros VII–XII)
Gredos, 1999
ISBN 9788424922412
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 266
Las leyes
Alianza Editorial, 2002
ISBN 9788420640938
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
- Hippias Minor · 395
- Ion · 395
- Menexenus · 386
- Clitophon
- Republic · 375
- Timaeus · 360
- Critias · 360
- Minos
- 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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