Plato: Hippias Major
08/04/2016
Hippias Major or Greater Hippias (Greek: Ἱππίας μείζων) is a dialogue by Plato on the subject of beauty. Socrates' chief interlocutor is the sophist Hippias of Elis, who also features in the Hippias Minor.
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Free Online Texts
Gutenberg: Ιππίας, Μείζων και Ελάσσων. Greek text, multiple formats.
Perseus: Greek text, edited by John Burnet (1903). English text, translated by W.R.M. Lamb (1925).
Wikisource: Greater Hippias, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Multiple formats.
Other Resources
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Hippias - short biography of the historical sophist.
Librivox: Apocrypha of Plato - audiobook.
Philpapers: Hippias Major - open access papers.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Plato's Shorter Ethical Works, by Paul Woodruff.
Wikipedia: Hippias Major.
The Great Conversation: Further reading at Tom's Learning Notes
Plato: Hippias Minor.
Ancient Greek resources: learn to read Greek classics in the original.
Bloom's Western Canon: Plato's Dialogues are listed.
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