There has been a lot of very high-quality work on Plato’s Socrates in the last thirty or forty years, and as a result I have mentioned more books and papers in this volume than is usual (while, of course, restricting myself to those I consider best). They are not all listed here, however: this bibliography lists works of general relevance to Plato’s Socrates, and works of general or central relevance to each of the four dialogues translated. Books and articles with narrower focuses have been restricted to footnotes in the Introduction or mentioned in situ in the Explanatory Notes.
Benson, H. H., Socratic Wisdom: The Model of Knowledge in Plato’s Early Dialogues (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Beversluis, J., Cross-Examining Socrates: A Defense of the Interlocutors in Plato’s Early Dialogues (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Brickhouse, T. C., and Smith, N. D., Plato’s Socrates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Dancy, R. M., Plato’s Introduction of Forms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Gulley, N., The Philosophy of Socrates (London: Macmillan, 1968).
Guthrie, W. K. C., A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. 4: Plato: The Man and His Dialogues, Earlier Period (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975).
Irwin, T., Plato’s Moral Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).
———Plato’s Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Kahn, C. H., Plato and the Socratic Dialogue (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Kraut, R., Socrates and the State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).
Mackenzie, M. M., ‘Impasse and Explanation from the Lysis to the Phaedo’, Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie, 70 (1988), 15–45.
McPherran, M. L., The Religion of Socrates (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996).
Penner, T., ‘Socrates and the Early Dialogues’, in R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 121–69.
Prior, W. J., ‘Socrates Metaphysician’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2004), 1–14.
Santas, G. X., Socrates: Philosophy in Plato’s Early Dialogues (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979).
Seeskin, K., Dialogue and Discovery: A Study in Socratic Method (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987).
Teloh, H., Socratic Education in Plato’s Early Dialogues (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986).
Vlastos, G., Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
White, N. P., Plato on Knowledge and Reality (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1976).
Wolfsdorf, D., ‘Interpreting Plato’s Early Dialogues’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 27 (2004), 15–40.
Each of these books contains a number of essays with relevance to Plato’s Socrates in general, or to one or more of the dialogues translated in this volume. To save space, I have not listed these essays elsewhere in this bibliography, even though the collections contain some of the best and most important work.
Benson, H. H. (ed.), Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Boudouris, K. J. (ed.), The Philosophy of Socrates, 2 vols. (Athens: International Center for Greek Philosophy and Culture, 1991, 1992).
Brown, M. (ed.), Plato’s Meno: Text and Essays (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971).
Day, J. M. (trans. and ed.), Plato’s Meno in Focus (London: Routledge, 1994).
Gower, B. S., and Stokes, M. C. (eds.), Socratic Questions: The Philosophy of Socrates and its Significance (London: Routledge, 1992).
McPherran, M. L. (ed.), Wisdom, Ignorance and Virtue: New Essays in Socratic Studies (Edmonton: Academic Printing & Publishing, 1997 = Apeiron, 30/4).
Nehamas, A., Virtues of Authenticity: Essays on Plato and Socrates (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999).
Prior, W. J. (ed.), Socrates: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London: Routledge, 1996).
Robinson, T. M., and Brisson, L. (eds.), Plato: Euthydemus, Lysis, Charmides (Sankt Augustin: Academia, 2000).
Scott, G. A. (ed.), Does Socrates Have a Method? Rethinking the Elenchus in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002).
Sesonske, A., and Fleming, N. (eds.), Plato’s Meno: Text and Criticism (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1965).
Smith, N. D., and Woodruff, P. B. (eds.), Reason and Religion in Socratic Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Vlastos, G. (ed.), The Philosophy of Socrates: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York: Doubleday, 1971).
——Socratic Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Adams, D., ‘Elenchos and Evidence’, Ancient Philosophy, 18 (1998), 287–307.
Beversluis, J., ‘Socratic Definition’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 11 (1974), 331–6.
Bolton, R., ‘Aristotle’s Account of the Socratic Elenchus’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 11 (1993), 121–52.
Irwin, T., ‘Common Sense and Socratic Method’, in J. Gentzler (ed.), Method in Ancient Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), 29–66.
Polansky, R., ‘Professor Vlastos’ Analysis of Socratic Elenchus’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 3 (1985), 247–59.
Robinson, R., Plato’s Earlier Dialectic (2nd edn., London: Oxford University Press, 1953).
Scaltsas, T., ‘Socratic Moral Realism: An Alternative Justification’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 7 (1989), 129–50.
Wolfsdorf, D., ‘Understanding the “What-is-F?” Question’, Apeiron, 36 (2003), 175–88.
——’Socrates’ Pursuit of Definitions’, Phronesis, 48 (2003), 271–312.
The Four Dialogues: Editions, Translations, and Commentaries
Allen, R. E., The Dialogues of Plato, vol. 1 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984).
Benson, H. H., Plato: Charmides (Project Archelogos: www.archelogos.com/xml/toc/toc-charmides.htm).
Bluck, R. S., Plato’s Meno (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964).
Bolotin, D., Plato’s Dialogue on Friendship (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979).
Guthrie, W. K. C., Plato: Protagoras and Meno (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1956).
Klein, J., A Commentary on Plato’s Meno (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965).
Robinson, D. B., and Herrmann, F.-G., Plato: Lysis (Project Archelogos: www.archelogos.com/xml/toc/toc-lysis.htm).
Saunders, T. J. (ed.), Plato: Early Socratic Dialogues (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987).
Schmid, W. T., On Manly Courage: A Study of Plato’s Laches (Carbon-dale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992).
——Plato’s Charmides and the Socratic Ideal of Rationality (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).
Sharples, R. W., Plato: Meno (Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1985).
Sprague, R. K., Plato: Laches and Charmides (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973).
Sternfeld, R., and Zyskind, H., Plato’s Meno: A Philosophy of Man as Acquisitive (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978).
Thomas, J. E., Musings on the Meno (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1980).
Weiss, R., Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato’s Meno (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Dyson, M., ‘Some Problems concerning Knowledge in Plato’s Charmides’, Phronesis, 19 (1974), 102–11.
Ketchum, R. J., ‘Plato on the Uselessness of Epistemology: Charmides 166e-172a’, Apeiron, 24 (1991), 81–98.
Morris, T. F., ‘Temperance and What One Needs in the Charmides’, Diálogos (Puerto Rico), 28 (1993), 55–72.
Santas, G. X., ‘Socrates at Work on Virtue and Knowledge in Plato’s Charmides’, in E. N. Lee et al. (eds.), Exegesis and Argument (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1973), 105–32.
Devereux, D., ‘Courage and Wisdom in Plato’s Laches’, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 15 (1977), 129–41.
Emlyn-Jones, C., ‘Dramatic Structure and Cultural Context in Plato’s Laches’, Classical Quarterly, 49 (1999), 123–38.
Gould, C. S., ‘Socratic Intellectualism and the Problem of Courage: An Interpretation of Plato’s Laches’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 4 (1987), 265–79.
Hobbs, A., Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Kahn, C. H., ‘Plato’s Methodology in the Laches’, Revue internationale de philosophie, 156–7 (1986), 7–21.
O’Brien, M. J., ‘The Unity of the Laches’, Yale Classical Studies, 18 (1963), 133–43; repr. in J. P. Anton and G. L. Kustas (eds.), Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1971), 303–15.
Stokes, M. C., Plato’s Socratic Conversations (London: Athlone, 1986).
Adams, D., ‘The Lysis Puzzles’, History of Philosophy Quarterly, 9 (l992) 3–17.
—— ‘A Socratic Theory of Friendship’, International Philosophical Quarterly, 35 (1995), 269–82.
Annas, J., ‘Plato and Aristotle on Friendship and Altruism’, Mind, 86 (1977), 532–54.
Glidden, D. K., ‘The Lysis on Loving One’s Own’, Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), 39–59.
Mooney, T., ‘Plato’s Theory of Love in the Lysis: A Defence’, Irish Philosophical Journal, 7 (1990), 131–59.
Morris, T. F., ‘Plato’s Lysis’, Philosophy Research Archives, 11 (1985), 269–79.
Pangle, L. S., ‘Friendship and Human Neediness in Plato’s Lysis’, Ancient Philosophy, 21 (2001), 305–23.
Price, A. W., Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Reshotko, N., ‘Plato’s Lysis: A Socratic Treatise on Desire and Attraction’, Apeiron, 30 (1997), 1–18.
Robinson, D. B., ‘Plato’s Lysis: The Structural Problem’, Illinois Classical Studies, 11 (1986), 63–83.
Versenyi, L., ‘Plato’s Lysis’, Phronesis, 20 (1975), 185–98.
Vlastos, G., ‘The Individual as an Object of Love in Plato’, in id., Platonic Studies (2nd edn., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), 3–42.
Bedu-Addo, J. T., ‘Sense-experience and Recollection in Plato’s Meno’, American Journal of Philology, 104 (1983), 228–48.
——‘Recollection and the Argument “from a Hypothesis” in Plato’s Meno’, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 104 (1984), 1–14.
Benson, H. H., ‘Meno, the Slave-boy and the Elenchus’, Phronesis, 35 (1990), 128–58.
—— and Wolfsdorf, D., ‘The Method of Hypothesis in the Meno’, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 18 (2002), 95–143.
Desjardins, R., ‘Knowledge and Virtue: Paradox in Plato’s Meno’, Review of Metaphysics, 39 (1985), 261–81.
Devereux, D. T., ‘Nature and Teaching in Plato’s Meno’, Phronesis, 23 (1978), 118–26.
Dimas, P., ‘True Belief in the Meno’, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 14 (1996), 1–32.
Ebert, T., ‘Plato’s Theory of Recollection Reconsidered: An Interpretation of Meno’, 80a–86c’, Man and World, 6 (1973), 163–81.
Fine, G., ‘Inquiry in the Meno’, in R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 200–26; repr. in id., Plato on Knowledge and Forms: Selected Essays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 44–65.
Franklin, L., ‘The Structure of Dialectic in the Meno’, Phronesis, 46 (2001) 413–39.
Gentzler, J., and Cicovacki, P., ‘Recollection and “The Problem of the Socratic Elenchus”’, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 10 (1994), 257–311.
Klein, S., ‘Socratic Dialectic in the Meno’, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 24 (1986), 351–64.
Morgan, M. L., ‘How Does Plato Solve the Paradox of Inquiry in the Meno?’, in J. P. Anton and A. Preus (eds.), Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, vol. 3: Plato (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989), 169–81.
Scott, D., ‘Platonic Recollection’, in G. Fine (ed.), Plato, vol. 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 93–124.
Williams, T., ‘Two Aspects of Platonic Recollection’, Apeiron, 35 (2002), 131–52.
Plato, Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito, trans. David Gallop.
—— Gorgias, trans. Robin Waterfield.
—— Phaedo, trans. David Gallop.
—— Phaedrus, trans. Robin Waterfield.
—— Protagoras, trans. C. C. W. Taylor.
—— Republic, trans. Robin Waterfield.
—— Selected Myths, ed. Catalin Partenie.
—— Symposium, trans. Robin Waterfield.