Plato: Gorgias
08/03/2016
The Gorgias (Greek: Γοργίας) is a dialogue by Plato depicting a debate between Socrates and a prominent sophist. It is set at the home of Callicles, where Socrates and his friend Chaerephon are invited to an audience with Gorgias after he has given a speech. The discussion centres on the nature of the art of rhetoric, which Socrates criticises because it does not teach how to use the skills it imparts justly.
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Free Online Texts
Gutenberg: Gorgias by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, multiple formats.
Internet Classics Archive: Gorgias, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Online text.
Perseus: Greek text (ed. John Burnet, 1903). English text, translated by W.R.M. Lamb. HTML and XML formats.
University of Adelaide (Internet Archive): Gorgias, translated by Benjamin Jowett. EPUB, HTML and MOBI formats.
Wikisource: Gorgias, translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871). Multiple formats.
Other Resources
Approaching Plato: A Guide to the Early and Middle Dialogues
Archelogos: Gorgias, commentary by Robin Waterfield.
History of Philosophy without any gaps: Virtue Meets its Match: Plato's Gorgias - podcast by philosopher Peter Adamson.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Gorgias - short biography of the historical sophist.
Leo Strauss Center: Plato, Gorgias, autumn 1963 - Leo Strauss lecture series audio and transcript.
Los Angeles Review of Books Blog: That Bit of Philosophy in All of Us, Talking to Tushar Irani, By Andy Fitch, 28 December 2018.
Librivox: Gorgias - audiobook.
PhilPapers: Plato - Gorgias - open access papers.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Callicles and Thrasymachus.
Wikipedia: Gorgias
The Great Conversation: Further Reading at Tom's Learning Notes.
Ancient Greek resources: Learn to read Greek classics in the original.
Bloom's Western Canon: Plato's Dialogues are listed.
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