Socrates
Greater Hippias
Recorded oral teaching
Greater Hippias
Ἱππίας μείζων
Socrates asks the sophist Hippias what the beautiful is. Hippias' answers—a beautiful girl, gold, a prosperous life—and the later proposals—the fitting, the useful, what pleases sight and hearing—fall one after another. It ends with the proverb that "beautiful things are difficult".
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Authorship note
Attributed to Plato; its authenticity has been debated since the nineteenth century. Even if it is not Plato's, it is an ancient witness to the image of Socrates in the Academy.
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Socrates
El primer Hipias o de lo bello (argumento y facsímil)
The Conscious LibraryEl primer Hipias o de lo bello (argumento y facsímil)
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 2 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
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- 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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