Plato Translations

My aim in preparing these translations has been to provide something more up-to-date and more faithful than the Jowett translations (c. 1900) which are so readily available on-line because no longer under copyright.

A print edition of Socrates of Athens is forthcoming from Broadview Press (2015); all of them are made available for free, via the SSRN, under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs) which allows them to be distributed freely, in whole or in part, so long as you (i) retain an attribution to the author(s)/translator(s, (ii) use them non-commercially, and (iii) do not make changes (please send suggestions for changes to me, at cathalwoods at gmail dot com). For more information, see the Creative Commons web site.

- - Socrates of Athens: Euthyphro, Socrates' Defense, Crito, and the death scene from Phaedo by Plato, Translated by Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack, 2010, 2007.
  - (That is, all four pieces together, with front matter.) SSRN |

Euthyphro by Plato, Translated by Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack, 2010, 2007 SSRN

Socrates' Defense (a.k.a. Apology) by Plato, Translated by Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack, 2010, 2007 SSRN

Crito by Plato, Translated by Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack, 2010, 2007 SSRN

Phaedo (death scene only) by Plato, Translated by Cathal Woods and Ryan Pack, 2010, 2007 SSRN

Republic 1. Translated by Cathal Woods, 2010 SSRN

Republic 2, 3, 4 (Excerpts). Translated by Cathal Woods, 2011 SSRN The section on education which spans books 2 and 3 is omitted.

- - Glaukon's Challenge. Translated by Cathal Woods, 2010 (A 4-page excerpt from the start of Republic 2, which includes the "Ring of Gyges" story. Compactly formatted for printing and classroom use.) SSRN

Meno. Translated by Cathal Woods, 2011 SSRN

Laches. Translated by Cathal Woods, 2012 SSRN

You can read more about the initial 2007 project in the front matter contained in the omnibus, as well as by looking at these PowerPoint slides (.ppt) and reading the accompanying text (.pdf).