Routledge Library Editions: Plato

Plato is perhaps the best known and most widely studied of all the ancient Greek philosophers.

A pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, his ideas have inspired and influenced scholars of nearly every era.

His famous series of dialogues have become a standard part of the western philosophical canon – from the Euthyphro and Gorgias of his early period, the Republic, Phaedrus and Symposium of his middle period, to the Theaetetus and Laws of his late period.The Routledge Library Edition makes available in a single set an outstanding range of scholarship devoted to Plato’s philosophical work.

Routledge Library Editions:Plato makes available in a single set an outstanding range of scholarship devoted to Plato’s philosophical work.

The 21 volumes provide detailed analysis of his writings and philosophical ideas.

From the classic works of Francis Cornford, G. C. Field and A.E. Taylor to more recent approaches and interpretations, this set provides libraries and scholars with a century of outstanding scholarship on this key philosopher.