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John Boonham
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:58 am Post subject: Reference material - "Calliope Venture Material" |
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A list of the dialogues of Plato - Updated July 17th, 2007
I have found the Sacred Texts website quite useful (see below) for its extensive collection of Plato texts. Unfortunately the Stephanus numbers do not appear. The attached two page PDF file (which has been extracted from this website) has a short introduction and then a good list of Plato texts arranged as Early, Middle and Late dialogues. While reading the PDF file on your computer you may click on the names of the dialogues to be taken to the text on this website http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/plato/ .
Updated July 17th, 2007
The Stephanus numbers have been aded to each dialogue in the attached PDF file. Note that Stephanus numbering is only unique within a dialogue. Sometimes a number is prepended to indicate book number or letter number. In these cases the number that follows is still unique within that dialogue.
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Index to the Stephanus Edition of Plato in three volumes (1578) showing start and end references to each dialogue |
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The dialogues of Plato with a short introduction and broken into "Early", "Middle" & "Late" dialogues and all listed with Stephanus numbers. |
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Peter Blumsom
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1138 Location: Wembley, London, UK
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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The magnificent three volume Stephanus edition of Plato
The magnificent three volume Stephanus edition of Plato was published in Geneva in 1578. The family business had started in Paris, and continued there after the death of its patron King Francis I in 1547. The founder, Richard Etienne, was a Calvinist, and fearing religious persecution fled to Vienna and started another branch of the business. His son, Henri Etienne later specialized in Greek Classics, while his Paris based cousin, Robert, devoted himself to the Latin.
Adopting the stylised Latin name of Henricus Stephanus, Henri published many of the classics, and certainly for Plato his edition is the standard of reference, and its page numbers are almost invariably cited in all subsequent versions of Plato, whether in Greek or in translation. Incidentally the Plato is usually cited as published in Paris, not Geneva.
The above from a recomended book by the Plato author John Bremer.
Ben Jonson, the playwright, is known to have owned all three volumes of Stephanus, and one can speculate that the edition must have been close to hand for the Bard himself.
For those who are curious I'm trying (but with little success so far!) to attach the title page of the Stephanus Plato,
Pete
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Image of frontpiece to the Stephanus 1578 three volume Plato edition in Greek and Latin |
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John Boonham
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Peter Blumsom
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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John, I am in awe! I'm gonna tell all my Plato friends about this. I hope I can get Timaeus up on this site, because this very day I'm 'having a controversy' on the topic of 'light' (Tim. 46 and 67) which if this works, I will put be in a position of such superiority that they will have to wash and iron my shirts for a fortnight. All I can say is, I am not worthy!
Pete
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Peter Blumsom
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John, I've been hard at work on the Perseus Project for the past hour and a half. It is, as you say, a little clunky and some times gets irritated at my constant requests for translation. The key seems to be, DON'T RUSH IT! It has its own time, which, though hardly 'musical', seems to get there in the end.
It has great potential.
Pete
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John Boonham
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 64 Location: Colchester, Essex, UK
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: A Comparison of Plato Texts - 4 Texts of the Apology |
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The Calliope Venture has produced (1st August 2007) a document in PDF format containing the full original Greek text and three English translations of Plato's The Apology of Socrates. Also included are the English translator's Introduction produced by two of the translators.
All this has been formatted in a neat manner with a full table of contents to assist the comparison of the texts. Stephanus number references are shown. There are full references to the source of the content which was found on the Internet. The texts are: -
- The original Greek text by Plato (429-347BC)
- Translated English text by Thomas Taylor (1758-1835)
- Translated English text by Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)
- Translated English text by Harold North Fowler (1859-1955)
Should it be wished to print this 54 page document then please note that it has been optimised for double sided printing in A4 landscape mode with (say) comb binding. Following the download of the file below then the document may be studied and searched (or printed) with Adobe Reader software.
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