Author: Plato; Translated by B. Jowett, M.A.
Narrator: Pat Bottino
Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 06/15/2010
Genre: History
The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Platos Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking persons education. When Socrates is accused by his enemies of crimes against the state, among them impiety and corruption of the young, his trial and death become the dramatic final setting for his message. These first four of Platos dialogues are offered unabridged, as translated by the distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.
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