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Read it with the English beside the Greek More by Plato

Kind of writing: Philosophic Dialogue
Dialect: Attic
Written: 5th–4th c. BC
Length: 105,851 words analysed
Vocabulary: 81% common words
In the library: 1 Greek text, 1 English translation

The texts

Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

Greek textPlatonis Opera Tomus IV: Tetralogia VIII. Burnet, John, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1905.
English translationPlato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 5-6. Shorey, Paul, translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1935-37 (printing).

In The Painted Stoa

Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.

The white marble we admire is what time left behindGreek statues were paintedThe gleaming white marble of Greek sculpture, admired for centuries as the image of classical purity, is a modern accident.Unnamed in court, vital at the altar: what Greek women could and could not doWomen's livesAlmost everything we read about Greek women was written by men.