Friday, August 01, 2014

Plato and Xenophon So Far

I've made a pretty sizable dent in Plato's corpus by this point, two and a half months in, although there are still some fairly hefty dialogues to go (including the two longest). I will be taking a break from Plato of about five days or so to catch my breath (and get some things done for Fall term), and then come back with the relatively short dialogues, Alicibiades Minor and Clitophon, before doing the Symposium (both Plato's and Xenophon's) mid-August and doing the Republic the last week of August; there will no doubt be some additional works fit in around these anchorpoints, but the trilogy of Minos, Laws, and Epinomis will definitely be saved for September. Plato will certainly be entirely done before the end of September.

Plato: Widely Recognized as Authentic

Charmides
Phaedrus: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
Ion
Hippias Minor
Gorgias: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
Lysis
Timaeus: Part I, Part II
Critias
Euthydemus
Meno
Menexenus: Part I, Part II
Theaetetus
Euthyphro
Cratylus
Sophist
Statesman
Apology
Crito
Phaedo: Part I, Part II



Plato: Heavily Disputed

Alcibiades Major


Plato: Usually Regarded as Spurious

The Platonic Definitions
Halcyon
Sisyphus
Demodocus
Eryxias
Axiochus
Rival Lovers
Theages
De Justo
De Virtute
Hipparchus

Xenophon
Memorabilia: Book I, Book II, Book III, Book IV
Apology


Related Posts

Some Thoughts Toward Reading Plato's Dialogues
The Golden Villain of Athens
Sydenham's Scheme for the Platonic Dialogues
Hermocrates: A Non-Reading
The Last Days of Socrates
Philosophos: A Non-Reading


Still to do

Plato: Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Alcibiades Minor, Protagoras, Hippias Major, Clitophon, Republic, Minos, Laws, Epinomis, Epistles, Epigrams

Xenophon: Symposium, Oeconomicus, Hiero, Cyropaedia, Cynegeticus (probably), Anabasis (probably), Agesilaus (possibly), Constitution of Sparta (possibly), Hellenica (possibly, but probably only if I can do Thucydides' History as well), Hipparchikos (if time allows), Hippike (if time allows), Poroi (if time allows)

Aristophanes: The Clouds

Plutarch: Socrates' Daimonion, Life of Socrates (possibly)

Apuleius: The God of Socrates (possibly)

Libanius: Defense of Socrates (probably)