Book detail: The Works of Plato: A New and Literal Version, Chiefly from the Text of Stallbaum is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This extensive collection presents the philosophical writings of the ancient Greek thinker Plato, translated directly into English with a distinct focus on maintaining strict fidelity to the original Greek syntax and vocabulary. The translation is heavily grounded in the foundational textual scholarship and critical editions prepared by the nineteenth-century philologist Gottfried Stallbaum. Designed to provide English-speaking audiences with a highly accurate and accessible rendering of Platonic philosophy, this edition purposefully avoids interpretive paraphrasing. Instead, it employs a precise, word-for-word translation methodology intended to preserve the exact meaning and structural integrity of the original classical texts.
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