If you want to know what happened on the site since your last visit, here is what you are looking for. Following is a list of major updates with the date they first appeared and a direct link to the corresponding pages.

• Technical update (August 22, 2007) of all links to the Republic and Laws at Perseus to include the book number in the link, which was not needed in an earlier version of the site
• A bibliography on and around Plato (December 14, 2001) with links, in that page, in the page on Plato's works, and elsewhere, toward appropriate pages at Amazon.com for online purchase of the books listed in those pages
• A page that shows what a "book" might have looked like in Plato's time (September 16, 2001), along with a commented translation in French of the analogy of the line form Republic, VI, added to translations of other sections of the Republic
• A new commented translation in French of the Meno (December 24, 2000) : for those who read French, with lots of footnotes and separate comments.
• Revised and expanded note on Socrates' last words (September 21, 1997) in the Overview of the Phædo  : this expanded note explores in greater details the multiple meanings of Socrates' last words and relates them to the Alcibiades, Symposium, Apology, and to the definition of justice provided by Cephalus at the start of the Republic.
• Overview and structure of the Phædo (September 7, 1997) : this set of pages introduce the Phædo as a dialogue defining the philosopher as the one who knows he will never be able to prove the soul's immortality but lives nevertheless the beautiful risk of behaving according to this belief, and analyses the detailed structure of the dialogue.
• The story of Gyges (November 4, 1996) : this page explores the deeper meaning of the story of Gyges in book II of the Republic and its relationship with the allegory of the cave in book VII and the myth of Er at the end of book X.
• Plan of the Phædrus (September 29, 1996) : this set of pages provides a commentary of the Phædrus through an in depth analysis of its structure and of the detailed plan of each of Socrates' three speeches.
• Plan of the Apology (August 19, 1996) : this analysis of the carefully built structure of the Apology, so much in line with the structuring principles of the dialogs as a whole, should cast doubt on the prevailing assumption that the Apology was written soon after Socrates' death.
• Plans of the Republic (August 14, 1996) : this page shows on the central dialog of the set how Plato was able to combine multiple structures in the same dialog and how a careful analysis of a dialog's "form" may help us better understand what Plato meant.
• Initial setup (May 16, 1996)

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