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In this work, after the first mention of a Platonic dialogue or other Platonic work, the following abbreviations are used:

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Alcibiades (Alc. 1, 2)

Amatores (Amat.)

Apology (Ap.)

Axiochus (Ax.)

Charmides (Chrm.)

Clitophon (Clit.)

Cratylus (Cra.)

Critias (Criti.)

Crito (Cri.)

Definitions (Def.)

Demodocus (Demod.)

Epinomis (Epin.)

Epistles (Ep. 1, 2, etc.)

Eryxias (Erx.)

Euthydemus (Euthd.)

Euthyphro (Euthphr.)

Gorgias (Grg.)

Halcyon (Hal.)

Hipparchus (Hipparch.)

Hippias Major (Hp. Ma.)

Hippias Minor (Hp. Mi.)

Ion

Laches (La.)

Laws/Leges (Lg.)

Lysis (Ly.)

Menexenus (Mx.)

Meno (Men.)

Minos (Min.)

On Justice (Just.)

On Virtue (Virt.)

Parmenides (Prm.)

Phaedo (Phd.)

Phaedrus (Phdr.)

Philebus (Phlb.)

Protagoras (Prt.)

Republic (R.)

Sisyphus (Sis.)

Sophist (Sph.)

Statesman/Politicus (Plt.)

Symposium (Smp.)

Theaetetus (Tht.)

Theages (Thg.)

Timaeus (Ti.)

Other Ancient Authors

DK Diels-Kranz, Hermann Diels, Walther Kranz, Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker.

This is a standard source for fragments of the presocratic philosophers. A numbers refer to testimonies about the philosopher; B numbers refer to fragments of their actual words.

D.L. Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers.

This third-century CE doxography is an important source for the views of ancient philosophers.

Other Abbreviations

b. (born)

bk (book)

bks (books)

ch. (chapter)

chs (chapters)

c. (for circa)

cf. (confer, compare)

d. (died)

edn (edition)

ed. (editor/edited by)

eds (editors)

ff. (and following)

fr. (fragment)

frs. (fragments)

Il. (Homer, Iliad)

no. (number)

nos. (numbers)

n.s. (new series)

n.d. (no date of publication)

Od. (Homer, Odyssey)

pt (part)

passim (often)

q.v. (quod vide, see the article entitled)

rev. (revised)

repr. (reprint/ed)

sc. (scilicet, that is)

sect. (section)

Theog. (Hesiod, Theogony)

trans. (translated by, translator/s)

vol. (volume)

vols (volumes)

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato

2nd edition
Gerald A. Press and Mateo Duque

The editors would like to thank the Bloomsbury Publishing Group for encouraging and supporting this project. Mateo Duques work on this volume was conducted while he was a Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Binghamton University. He would like to thank Tony Preus, Binghamton University and Dean Nancy A. Um for their support.

We would like to thank each of the contributors, both the original contributors to the first edition and those who contributed new articles, for their work on this second edition, for their willingness to adapt their articles to the overall plan and needs of the volume and to say in fewer words than they often wished what might have been said in more. They have been continuing examples of the intellectual moderation, courage, wisdom and justice that make the scholarly life happiest and best.

William H.F. Altman

Independent Scholar

Calais, VT

USA

Hayden W. Ausland

Professor of Classics

University of Montana

Missoula, MT

USA

Dirk Baltzly

Professor of Philosophy

University of Tasmania

Australia

Frederick Beiser

Professor of Philosophy

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

USA

Elizabeth S. Belfiore

Professor of Classics Emerita

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Minneapolis, MN

USA

Jeremy R. Bell

Senior Lecturer of Philosophy

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

USA

Rick Benitez

Associate Professor of Philosophy

The University of Sydney

Australia

Hugh H. Benson

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy

University of Oklahoma

Norman, OK

USA

Robbert M. van den Berg

University Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy

Leiden University

The Netherlands

Alberto Bernab

Professor Emeritus of Classics

Complutense University of Madrid

Spain

David Blank

Distinguished Professor of Classics and Philosophy

UCLA

Los Angeles, CA

USA

Ruby Blondell

Professor of Classics Emerita

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

USA

Thomas C. Brickhouse

Professor of Philosophy

Lynchburg College

Lynchburg, VA

USA

Luc Brisson

Director of Research

Centre Jean Ppin

CNRS, Paris

France

Stuart C. Brown

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

The Open University

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

UK

Margaret Cameron

Head-School of Historical and Philosophical Studies

University of Melbourne

Australia

Laura Candiotto

Associate Professor of Philosophy

University of Pardubice, Center for Ethics

Czech Republic

Sophie-Grace Chappell

Professor of Philosophy

The Open University

Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

UK

Antonio Chu

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Metropolitan State University of Denver

Denver, CO

USA

Catherine Collobert

Professor of Philosophy

University of Ottawa

Canada

Gabriele Cornelli

Professor of Ancient Philosophy

University of Braslia

Brazil

John Dillon

Emeritus Fellow

Trinity College, Dublin

Ireland

Monique Dixsaut

Emeritus Professor

Panthon-Sorbonne University, Paris

France

Louis-Andr Dorion

Professor of Philosophy

Universit de Montral

Canada

Mateo Duque

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Binghamton University

Binghamton, NY

USA

Jacques Antoine Duvoisin

Tutor (Professor of Philosophy)

St. Johns College

Santa Fe, NM

USA

Rafael Ferber

Professor of Philosophy

University of Zrich

Switzerland

Richard Foley

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO

USA

Dorothea Frede

Professor of Philosophy (emerita)

Hamburg University

Germany

Francesco Fronterotta

Professor of Ancient Philosophy

Sapienza University of Roma

Italy

Alessandra Fussi

Associate Professor of Moral Philosophy

University of Pisa

Italy