Plato's dialogues

Last updated November 22, 1998

Plato and his dialogues : Home - Biography - Works and links to them - History of interpretation - New hypotheses - Map of dialogues : table version or non tabular version. Tools : Index of persons and locations - Detailed and synoptic chronologies - Maps of Ancient Greek World. Site information : About the author.
Tetralogies : Next dialogue : The Laws - Previous dialogue : Timæus - Next tetralogy : none - Previous tetralogy : Dialectic - Text of the dialogue in Greek or English at Perseus

(7th tetralogy : Man in the World - 2nd dialogue of trilogy)

. . . . WORK IN PROGRESS - PLEASE BE PATIENT . . .

To keep you waiting, you may want to read the following posts from my e-mail archives :

Platonism, a fresh look (part 3), the section on the Critias
Names in Plato's choice of characters, showing why Plato chose Critias for the leading part in the middle dialogue of the last trilogy and why he never wrote the Hermocrates
Why did Plato destroy Athens along with Atlantis ?, offering, as framework to an answer to that specific question, an explanation of the role of the Critias in the dialogues, and of Critias and Plato's intents with the tale of Atlantis

Last updated November 22, 1998
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