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Plato
(c.427-347 BC)

Socrates
(470-399 BC)

(image from the philosopher's gallery)

Information about Greek Philosophy

• Dates in classical Greece
• Timeline for Greek philosophy
• Stephanus pagination
• How to pronounce Greek names
• A few books about eros

Information about Socrates and Plato

• Who is Socrates?
• Socrates as midwife
• Socratic method
• The rest of the stoyr: a bit of Athenian history
• Plato's three parts of the soul
• The Phaedrus and The Eternal
   

Interesting Plato & Socrates websites

"The Death of Socrates," from the philosopher's gallery

• An excellent site on Plato and his dialogues that provides links to numerous resources on Plato, as well as links to many of his dialogues that are available online
  
  
• An excellent! site on The Last Days of Socrates (about which we will be reading) with a variety of links to related sites, including links to good translations of the relevant Dialogues
  
  
• I will be referring to the image of Socrates depicted by the comic playwright Aristophanes in some of his plays; Some of Aristophanes' plays can be found online here

 

Plato's Dialogues available online

I do not really recommend these online versions of Plato's Dialogues only because the translations are so old. But if you would like to compare our more current and readable translation with this older, less fluid, translation by Benjamin Jowett, the Dialogues we will be looking at can be found at:

• The Euthyphro
• The Apology
• The Crito
• The Phaedo
• The Phaedrus
• or the older Jowett translations of the Dialogs

You could also take a look at the following Dialogues to which we will be referring this quarter:

• The Republic
• The Symposium
  

A large variety of other classical writers is also available at:

• Classics online

Assignments

The Euthyphro

• Read the entire Euthyphro (or peri hosiou) by the due date
• Read the pages on the Socratic method, both my summary of it and Kierkegaard's description of indirect communication
• Write out answers to the study questions for The Euthyphro and post them to the class by the date you are due to be finished reading the book

The Apology

• Read the entire Apology by the due date
• Write out answers to the study questions for The Apology and post them to the class by the date you are due to be finished reading the book

The Crito

• Read the entire Crito by the due date
• Write out answers to the study questions for The Crito and post them to the class by the date you are due to be finished reading the book
  

The Phaedo

• Read the assigned portions of The Phaedo (from Stephanus page 114D to the end of the dialog) by the due date
• Write out answers to the study questions for The Phaedo and post them to the class by the date you are due to be finished reading the book

The Phaedrus

• Read the assigned portions of The Phaedrus (from the beginning of the dialog to Stephanus page 257C) by the due date
• Write out answers to the study questions for The Phaedrus and post them to the class by the date you are due to be finished reading the book
• Here are a few interesting books on love that you may be interested in looking at some time.