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The Collected Dialogues of Plato

  • Plato
  • Edited by: Edith Hamilton , Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns
  • Preface by: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2026
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"The Platonic Forms of the Platonic dialogues."—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex

For the first time in paperback, the landmark one-volume edition of the complete writings of Plato

This classic one-volume edition of the complete writings of Plato is now available in paperback for the very first time. The editors, Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, chose the contents from the work of the best modern British and American translators. The volume contains prefatory notes to each dialogue, by Hamilton; an introductory essay on Plato’s philosophy and writings, by Cairns; and a comprehensive index with cross references. In a new foreword, acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein describes Plato’s unparalleled importance to philosophy down to the present day, why he chose the artful form of the dialogue, and what makes this edition of his writings special.

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Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) was perhaps the most famous and influential classicist of the twentieth century. Her bestselling Mythology remains a standard version of the stories of the ancient world. Huntington Cairns (1904–1985) was a writer and lawyer who worked at different times for the U.S. Treasury, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and Johns Hopkins University. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist whose books include Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away and Thirty-Six Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.

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"This elegant edition contains many of the best and most readable English translations of the Dialogues and Letters. . . . Judiciously edited."

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    Frontmatter

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    Translators

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    CONTENTS

    vii
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    Editorial note

    xi
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    Foreword

    xiii
    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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    Introduction

    xvii
    Huntington Cairns
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    SOCRATES' DEFENSE (APOLOGY)

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    CRITO

    27
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    PHAEDO

    40
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    CHARMIDES

    99
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    LACHES

    123
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    LYSIS

    145
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    EUTHYPHRO

    169
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    MENEXENUS

    186
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    LESSER HIPPIAS

    200
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    ION

    215
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    GORGIAS

    229
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    PROTAGORAS

    308
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    MENO

    353
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    EUTHYDEMUS

    385
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    CRATYLUS

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    PHAEDRUS

    475
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    SYMPOSIUM

    526
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    REPUBLIC

    575
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    THEAETETUS

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    PARMENIDES

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    SOPlIXST

    957
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    STATESMAN

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    PHILEBUS

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    TIMAEUS

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    CRITXAS

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    LAWS

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    APPENDIX

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    Epinomis

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    GREATER Hippias

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    LETTERS

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    INDEX

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9780691264431
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691264431
eBook ISBN: 9780691264431
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