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Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.

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Text: English, Greek (translation)

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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics (August 4, 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140444475
ISBN-13: 978-0140444476
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces

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endurance with wisdom, things being fine, good rhapsode, craft analogy, auditory pleasure, intellectualist account, fifth definition, moral expert, wrong deliberately, technical passages, sophistic movement, dramatic date, secundum quid, reciprocal friendship, early dialogues, silent things, apparatus criticus, fourth definition

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Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ancestral Zeus, Nicomachean Ethics, Thirty Tyrants, Diogenes Laertius, Hippies Major, Peloponnesian War, Asia Minor, Dissoi Logoi, Plato Write Socratic Dialogues

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Hippias Major by Paul Woodruff on 22 pages
A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 4, Plato: The Man and his Dialogues: Earlier Period (Plato - The Man & His Dialogues - Earlier Period) by W. C. K. Guthrie on 7 pages
The Dialogues of Plato (Bantam Classic) by Plato on 7 pages
The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans (A History of Greek Philosophy, Vol. 1) by W. K. C. Guthrie on 7 pages
The Sophistic Movement by G. B. Kerferd on 6 pages

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I cannot say much for how accurate the translation is but this text does provide some dialogs which are hard to get your hands on (in English anyway).

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