Plato - The Last Days of Socrates

Walter Burkert, Greek Religion (Cambridge, MA, 1985).

Paul Cartledge, Ancient Political Thought in Practice (Cambridge, 2009). (Includes some reflections on Socrates death.)

Kenneth Dover, Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle (Berkeley/Los Angeles, 1974).

Charles H. Kahn, Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans (Indianapolis/Cambridge, MA, 2001).

Robert Parker, Athenian Religion: A History (Oxford, 1998).

Christoph Riedweg, Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching and Influence, tr. S. Rendall (Ithaca, NY, 2002).

John Burnet, Platonis opera, vol. I (Oxford (Oxford Classical Texts), 1903).

E. A. Duke, W. F. Hicken, W. S. M. Nicoll, D. B. Robinson, J. C. G. Strachan, Platonis opera, vol. I (Oxford (Oxford Classical Texts), 1995). (The new Oxford text.)

John M. Cooper (ed.), Plato: Complete Works (Indianapolis/Cambridge, MA, 1997).

Julia Annas and Christopher Rowe (eds.), New Perspectives on Plato, Modern and Ancient (Cambridge, MA, 2002).

Ruby Blondell, The Play of Character in Platos Dialogues (Cambridge, 2002). (Thought-provoking on the general issue of the relationship between the philosophical and the literary and dramatic elements in the dialogues.)

Gail Fine (ed.), Plato I and II (Oxford, 1999). (A useful general collection of articles on Plato.)

Terence Irwin, Platos Ethics (Oxford, 1995). (A standard modern treatment of its subject.)

Charles H. Kahn, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form (Cambridge, 1996).

Mark McPherran, The Religion of Socrates (University Park, PA, 1996).

Debra Nails, The People of Plato (Indianapolis/Cambridge, MA, 2003). (A complete prosopography of the people who figure in Platos dialogues; indispensable.)

Andrea W. Nightingale, Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construct of Philosophy (Cambridge, 1995). (On the intersection between philosophy and literature in Plato.)

Catalin Partenie (ed.), Platos Myths (Cambridge, 2009).

Terry Penner, Socrates and the Early Dialogues, in Richard Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 12169. (A short account of the Socratic theory of desire and action; for a much longer and more complete account, see the following item.)

Terry Penner and Christopher Rowe, Platos Lysis (Cambridge, 2005).

Gerald A. Press, Who Speaks for Plato? (Lanham, MD, 2000).

C(hristopher) J. Rowe, Plato (2nd edition, London, 2003). (A basic introduction to Plato which acknowledges that he wrote dialogues.)

Christopher Rowe, Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (Cambridge, 2007). (Includes detailed analysis of the Apology and Phaedo, and places them in the larger context of Platos work.)

Gerasimos Santas, Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle and the Moderns (Oxford, 2001).

Nicholas D. Smith and Thomas Brickhouse, Platos Socrates (Oxford, 1994).

I. F. Stone, The Trial of Socrates (Boston, 1987).

Thomas Szlezk, Reading Plato (London,1999). (A useful short introduction.)

C. C. W. Taylor, A Very Short Introduction to Socrates (Oxford, 2000). (Very short, but very useful.)

Gregory Vlastos, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher