In the dialogue, Socrates recounts the life of Hipparchus, a tyrant of 6th century Athens and son of the famous ruler Peisistratus. Hipparchus was known...
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Hipparchus, the common Latinization of the Greek Hipparkhos, can mean: Hipparchus, the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchic cycle, an astronomical cycle...
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Clitophon Cratylus Critias Crito Epinomis Euthydemus Euthyphro Gorgias Hipparchus Hippias Major Hippias Minor Ion Laches Laws Lysis Menexenus Meno Minos...
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Plato (redirect from Dialogues of Plato)
Alcibiades I (*), Alcibiades II (‡), Clitophon (*), Epinomis (‡), Letters (*), Hipparchus (‡), Menexenus (*), Minos (‡), Lovers (‡), Theages (‡) The following works...
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Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the most challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues. The Parmenides purports...
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Τίμαιος, translit. Timaios, pronounced [tǐːmai̯os]) is one of Plato's dialogues, mostly in the form of long monologues given by Critias and Timaeus, written...
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Apology (Plato) (redirect from Apology (dialogue))
Sokrátous; Latin: Apologia Socratis), written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates (469–399 BC) spoke at...
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Crito (redirect from Crito (dialogue))
KRY-toh or /ˈkriːtoʊ/ KREE-toh; Ancient Greek: Κρίτων [krítɔːn]) is a dialogue that was written by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It depicts a conversation...
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translit. Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed...
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Critias (/ˈkrɪtiəs/; Greek: Κριτίας), one of Plato's late dialogues, recounts the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer...
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Phaedo (redirect from Phaedo (dialogue))
the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality...
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possession. It is one of the shortest of Plato's dialogues. Socrates, the Greek philosopher. In this dialogue, he questions the nature of art and of divine...
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ancient Greek mathematician Hipparchus who appears from evidence in Plutarch to have known of these numbers. The Schröder–Hipparchus numbers may be used to...
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name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dialogue, Socrates is...
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Protagoras (/proʊˈtæɡərəs/; Greek: Πρωταγόρας) is a dialogue by Plato. The traditional subtitle (which may or may not be Plato's) is "or the Sophists"...
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Laws (Greek: Νόμοι, Nómoi; Latin: De Legibus) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. The conversation depicted in the work's twelve books begins with the question...
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Meno (redirect from Dialogue of meno)
Meno (/ˈmiːnoʊ/; Greek: Μένων, Ménōn) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Meno begins the dialogue by asking Socrates whether virtue is taught, acquired...
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form of a dialogue, in this case between Socrates and the young mathematician Theaetetus and his teacher Theodorus of Cyrene. In the dialogue, Socrates...
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Euthyphro (category Dialogues of Plato)
is a Socratic dialogue whose events occur in the weeks before the trial of Socrates (399 BC), between Socrates and Euthyphro. The dialogue covers subjects...
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(/ˈɡɔːrɡiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας [ɡorɡíaːs]) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC. The dialogue depicts a conversation between Socrates and a small...
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The Charmides (/ˈkɑːrmɪdiːz/; Greek: Χαρμίδης) is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy named Charmides in a conversation...
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The Laches (/ˈlækiːz/; Greek: Λάχης) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Participants in the discourse present competing definitions of the concept...
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Euthydemus (Greek: Εὐθύδημος, Euthydemes), written c. 384 BC, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the...
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The Sophist (Greek: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors...
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although the Platonic dialogue Hipparchus (not really by Plato, but probably of the fourth century BC) attributes it to Hipparchus, son of Peisistratos...
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Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus 4th tetralogy Alcibiades I, Alcibiades II, Hipparchus, Lovers 5th tetralogy Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis 6th tetralogy...
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Latin: Politicus), also known by its Latin title, Politicus, is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. The text depicts a conversation among Socrates, the mathematician...
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Symposium (Plato) (redirect from Symposium (Plato dialogue))
[sympósi̯on], romanized: Sympósion, lit. 'Drinking Party') is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, dated c. 385 – 370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous...
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Hindu idealism Hindu philosophy Hinduism Hipparchia of Maroneia Hipparchus (dialogue) Hippasus Hippias Hippias Major Hippias Minor Hippias of Elis Hippo...
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the stem Λύσιδ-, from which the infrequent translation Lysides), is a dialogue of Plato which discusses the nature of philia (φιλία), often translated...
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