Course-Related Links for the Advanced Seminar

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Useful Pages on Plato

• A brief "Life of Plato" by Anthony F. Beavers and Christopher Planeaux at the Exploring Plato's Dialogues site.
• An introductory essay on "Plato and His Dialogues" by Bernard Suzanne at the Exploring Ancient World Cultures site.

E-Texts of the Platonic Corpus Available on the Web

• The corpus at the Perseus Project (includes the Stephanus numbers, and also includes dialogues of doubtful authenticity not included in the Hamilton and Cairns volume).
  
  
  • Alcibiades I -- not in Hamilton and Cairns
  • Alcibiades II -- not in Hamilton and Cairns
  • Apology
  • Charmides
  • Cleitophon -- not in Hamilton and Cairns
  • Cratylus
  • Critias
  • Crito
  • Epinomis
  • Euthydemus
  • Euthyphro
  • Gorgias
  • Hipparchus -- not in Hamilton and Cairns
  • Greater Hippias
  • Lesser Hippias
  • Ion
  • Laches
  • Laws
  • Letters
  • Lovers -- not in Hamilton and Cairns
  • Lysis
  • Menexenus
  • Meno
  • Minos -- not in Hamilton and Cairns
  • Parmenides
  • Phaedo
  • Phaedrus
  • Philebus
  • Protagoras
  • Republic
  • Sophist
  • Statesman
  • Symposium
  • Theaetetus
  • Theages -- not in Hamilton and Cairns
  • Timaeus

Sites on Plato on the World Wide Web

• Anthony F. Beavers's Exploring Plato's Dialogues, a site devoted to a close reading of the Crito, the Phaedo, the Phaedrus, the Symposium, and the Republic via hypertext editions of the text.
• Christopher Planeaux's Platonica, a site containing a variety of information on Plato, his life and times, and his works -- a good bit still under construction.
• Bernard Suzanne's Plato and His Dialogues, a site containing much of Suzanne's work in progress on his own hypothesis as to how the Platonic corpus should be read.

Miscellaneous Other Sites

• Euclid's Elements. Trans. David E. Joyce. -- So that none of you will be "without geometry"!
• Raphael's School of Athens. Here's another site with links that'll help you identify at least some of the figures in the painting.
• Online Greek Lessons -- An introduction to the Greek alphabet and how to pronounce the various letters and diphthongs and the rough and smooth breathing marks.
• The Musical Pitch Accents in Greek -- An explanation of the function of the accents that appear above the vowels in classical Greek. An essential supplement to the information contained on the site listed just above if you're at all interested in what ancient Greek really sounded like.

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