Table Of ContentPLATO
PLATO
PROTAGORAS
EDITED BY
NICHOLAS DENYER
University Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge,
and
Fellow and College Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambnd
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1. Plato. Protagoras. 2. Protagoras. 3. Socrates. 4. Sophists (Greek philosophy)
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CONTENTS
Preface page vii
Abbreviations and references IX
Introduction
1 The sophists, Protagoras and the Protagoras
2 Socrates the sophist?
3 Plato and the example of Socrates
4 Endence for the text
ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ ΠΡΩΤΑΓΟΡΑΣ
Commentary
Indexes
General
Proper names
Greek words
PREFACE
The Introduction to this book contains general remarks that could not
conveniently be digested into the piecemeal format of the commentary.
In spite of its name ‘Introduction’, and its position before the text, there
is no need to have read the Introduction before starting to read the rest
of the book. If some preliminary onentation to the Protagoras 1s required,
it will be found in the italicised paragraphs of summary that are scattered
throughout the commentary.
I have incurred many intellectual debts in writing this book: to the
Editors of this series; to the unfailingly efficient and helpful staff of
that marvellous resource, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae; to those who
took part in the Mayweek 2004 seminars on the Profagoras; to Bernard
Dod, an exact and scrupulous copy-editor; and to Adam Beresford,
Lynne Broughton, Myles Burnyeat, Andrea Capra, Giovanni di Pasquale,
David Konstan, Geoffrey Lloyd, Catherine Osborne, Philomen Probert,
Christopher Rowe, Catherine Steel, Liba Taub, Christopher Taylor,
James Warren, Roslyn Weiss, andJ o Willmott.
More important than any intellectual debt 15 my debt to my father,
Ronald Denyer. He died while I was writing this book. I dedicate it to his
memory.
Trinity College, Cambridge N. C. D.
29 February 2008
ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
PLATO
The page numbers of Stephanus’ 1578 edition continue to be printed
in the margins of editions and translations, and used for references to the
text of Plato. References to the Protagoras itself are given here simply in
the form 345a6, where '345' is the number of a Stephanus page, ‘a’ the
letter of a section within the page, and ‘6’ the number of a line within the
section. References to other works in the Platonic corpus are given here by
title (sometimes abbreviated), Stephanus page number and section letter.
The following abbreviations are used:
Ale. Ma. = Alcibiades Major, Alc. Mi. = Alcibiades Minor, Ap. = Apology,
Chrm. = Charmides, Clit. = Clitophon, Cra. = Cratylus, Cri. = (πίο, Ep. =
Epistles, Euthd. = Euthydemus, Euthphr. = Euthyphro, Grg. = Gorgias, Hp. Ma.
= Hippias Major, Hp. Mi. = Hippias Minor, La. = Laches, Lys. = Lysts,
Mux. = Menexenus, Phd. = Phaedo, Phdr. = Phaedrus, Phlb. = Philebus,
Pit. = Politicus, Prm. = Parmenides, Rep. = Republic, Smp. = Symposium,
Sph. = Sophist, Thg. = Theages, Tht. = Theaetetus, Tim. = Tunaeus
OTHER ANCIENT AUTHORS AND WORKS
Ael. Aelian Jara Historia
Aesch. Aeschylus; Pr. τῷ Prometheus Bound
Aeschin. Aeschines
Amm. Ammonius On expressions that are similayret different
Anax. Anaxagoras
And. Andocides
Anon. lamb. Anonymus lamblichi
Ant. Antiphon
Antisth. Antisthenes
Anth. Pal. Anthologia Palatina
Ar. Aristophanes; Ach. = Acharnians, Ec. = Ecclesiazousae,
Lys. = Lysistrata, Pl. = Plutus, Th. = "ID hesmophoriazousae
Arist. Aristotle; Ath. = Constitution of Athens, EE = Eudemian
Ethics, EN = .Ntcomachean Ethics, Met. = Metaphysics, PA
= Parts of Anunals, Pol. = Polttics, Prob. = Problems, Rh.
= Rhetor, SE = Sophistici Elenchi
LX
ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES
Athenaeus
Bacchylides
Cicero
Critias
Ctesias
Demetrius On Style
Democritus
Demosthenes
Diogenes Laertius
Diodorus Siculus
Empedocles
Epicharmus
Eupolis
Euripides; Adc. = Alcestis, Bac. = Bacchae, Hipp.
Hippolytus, [A = Iphigeneia in Aults, Med. = Medea
Eustathius
Gorgias
Harpocration Lexicon
Herodotus
Heraclitus
Hesiod; 7h. = Theogony, WD = Works and Days
Hippocrates
Homer; 1. = 1liad, Od. = Odyssey
Isaeus
Isocrates
‘Longinus’ On the sublime
Lysias
Menander; Dys. = Dyscolus, Sam. = Samia
Pausamias
Pindar; O. = Olympians, .N. = Nemeans
Plutarch; Ale. = Alcibiades, Per. = Pericles
Sophocles; 4j. = Ajax, Ant. = Antigone, OC = Oedipus at
Colonus, OT = Oedipus Tyrannus, Phil. = Phüloctetes
Theoenis
Theophrastus
Thucydides
Xenophon; An. = Anabasis, Ap. = Apology, Ath. Pol. =
Constitution of Athens, Cyr. = Cyropaedia, HG = Histona
