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The dialogues of Plato in five volumes, Vol. 2

by Plato (428–348 BCE)

22 chapters, about 145,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION. 5,900 words
2. MENO. A SLAVE OF MENO. SOCRATES. ANYTUS. 11,600 words
3. INTRODUCTION. 1,000 words
4. SCENE:—The Porch of the King Archon. 6,400 words
5. INTRODUCTION. 2,900 words
6. APOLOGY. 6,500 words
7. INTRODUCTION. 800 words
8. SCENE:—The Prison of Socrates. 3,100 words
9. INTRODUCTION. 8,600 words
10. SCENE:—The Prison of Socrates. 20,600 words
11. INTRODUCTION. 12,400 words
12. SCENE:—The house of Callicles. 29,100 words
13. APPENDIX I. 800 words
14. INTRODUCTION. 800 words
15. EUDICUS, SOCRATES, HIPPIAS. 5,300 words
16. INTRODUCTION. 500 words
17. ALCIBIADES, SOCRATES. 13,500 words
18. INTRODUCTION. 600 words
19. _PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE._ 4,500 words
20. APPENDIX II. 300 words
21. _PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE._ 3,900 words
22. SCENE:—The portico of a temple of Zeus. 5,400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Alcibiades
• Belief
• Courage
• Good and evil
• Medes
• Reverence (emotion)
• Rhetoric
• Wisdom

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