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[21] [citation needed] Cicero's dialogue imitates Plato's style and treats many of the same topics, and Cicero's main character Scipio Aemilianus expresses his esteem for Plato and Socrates. Augustine of Hippo wrote his The City of God ; Augustine equally described a model of the "ideal city", in his case the eternal Jerusalem , using a ...
Volume 1, Page 142 of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing the opening of Theaetetus. Stephanus pagination is a system of reference and organization used in modern editions and translations of Plato (and less famously, Plutarch [citation needed]) based on the three-volume 1578 edition [1] of Plato's complete works translated by Joannes Serranus (Jean de Serres) and published by ...
There are 51 Byzantine manuscripts in Greek minuscule that constitute the main basis for the text of Plato's works. [2] Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 — 895 AD; first six tetralogies, designated B. [3] Codex Parisinus graecus 1807 — circa 900 AD; last two tetralogies and the apocrypha, designated A
Politeia (πολιτεία) is an ancient Greek word used in Greek political thought, especially that of Plato and Aristotle. Derived from the word polis ("city-state"), it has a range of meanings from "the rights of citizens" to a "form of government".
August Immanuel Bekker. Bekker numbering or Bekker pagination is the standard form of citation to the works of Aristotle.It is based on the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle (1831–1837) and takes its name from the editor of that edition, the classical philologist August Immanuel Bekker (1785–1871); because the academy was ...
In Plato's works, such a discussion occurs in the Republic. Socrates feels that his description of the ideal state was not sufficient for the purposes of entertainment and that "I would be glad to hear some account of it engaging in transactions with other states" (19b).
Dionysius I of Syracuse. The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato.It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse.
Protagoras, in a collection of Plato's Dialogues at Standard Ebooks; Text of Plato's Protagoras, Jowett's translation, published by the Gutenberg Project. Protagoras on the Perseus Project translated by W.R.M. Lamb (1924) ISBN 0-674-99183-4, ISBN 0-674-99184-2; Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues