/lit/ - Literature

>>18315123
very cool thank you
>>18315264
whatever, hylic
>>18315368
I'll try and keep this regular
>>18315381
Read them in Cooper's order:
>Euthyphro
>Apology
>Crito
>Phaedo
>Cratylus
>Theaetetus
>Sophist
>Statesman
>Parmenides
>Philebus
>Symposium
>Phaedrus
>Alcibiades I
>Alcibiades II*
>Hipparchus
>Rival Lovers*
>Theages*
>Charmides
>Laches
>Lysis
>Euthydemus
>Protagoras
>Gorgias
>Meno
>Greater Hippias
>Lesser Hippias
>Ion
Menexenus
>Clitophon
>Republic
>Timaeus
>Critias
>Minos*
>Laws
>Epinomis*
>The Letters
Everything starred is of disputed authorship or is confirmed to be written by Plato's students but circulated it under his name. The most important of these is probably the Epinomis.
There are other pseudographical texts in the Cooper collection after the Letters but I don't know much about them.
>>18315438
Thanks man
>>18315264
this guy gets it right>>18315451
Platonism is borne in the Dialogue form - Plato wanted to be a playwright like Sophocles, hence the dialogue format.
The essence of Platonism as intentionally theatrical and simultaneously philosophical and inextricably theological continues throughout Pagan Neoplatonism -- Plotinus' use of the theatre on account of transmigration and virtue, and Christian Neoplatonism -- Boethius, Eriugena and Eckhart in a roundabout sense in the Sermons all use the Dialogue format - the theatrical component isn't lost either despite rejecting reincarnation - it gets re-purposed whereby history-itself is theatre, the Theo-drama God writes whose protagonist is Christ as Balthasar famously wrote about.

Important to note is that Platonism finds its actual roots in Orphism.