Platonis Opera Omnia II
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BOK.FRA.AD1578.v2
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Title |
Platonis Opera Omnia II
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Alternative Title |
The Works of Plato II
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Description |
The complete works of Plato translated by Jean de Serres, with commentary. This compilation was the first of its kind and established a numerical system called the "Stephanus numbers" to reference Plato's work with ease (Reverdin). The numbers are named after a publishing family, the Estiennes (Stephanus), who created the system. Henri Estienne II, publisher of this book, took over the publishing house his father, Robert Estienne I, established in Geneva in 1550 due to persecution for his Protestant beliefs in Paris. "Henri Estienne [II] mastered Latin, Greek, and Italian and devoted a significant amount of work to translating, editing, publishing, and collating essential classical texts" (Shangler).
The collection consists of three volumes contained in these two books. Book II is divided between the first and second tome (volume 2 begins with the sixth book of the Republic). The composition of each volume is as follows: Volume I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Theages, Rival Lovers, Theaetetus, Sophist, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Hippias minor, Cratylus, Gorgias Volume II: Philebus, Meno, Alcibiades, 2nd Alcibiades, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Hipparchus, Menexenus, Statesman, Minos, Republic, Laws, Epinomis Volume III: Timaeus, Critias, Parmenides, Symposium, Phaedrus, Hippias major, Letters, Axiochus, On Justice, On Virtue, Demodocus, Sisyphus, Eryxias, Clitophon, Definitions ("Plato and His Dialogue"). * * * “Plato and His Dialogue: the Stephanus Edition,” March 8, 2009. https://www.plato-dialogues.org/stephanus.htm. Reverdin, Olivier. "Le «Platon» D'Henri Estienne." Museum Helveticum 13, no. 4 (1956): 239-50. Accessed October 26, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24812617. Shangler, Nicholas. "The language of identity: Henri Estienne's anti-Italian polemics." The Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History 18 (2015): 103+. Gale Literature Resource Center (accessed October 26, 2020). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A450999506/LitRC?u=byuidaho&sid=LitRC&xid=c7bcae4b. |
Date Created |
1578 AD
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Creator |
Plato
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Publisher |
Henri Estienne II
Henricus Stephanus II
Stephanus
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Contributor |
Jean de Serres
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Geographical Coverage |
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Temporal Coverage |
16th Century AD
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Format |
Print
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Version |
First Edition
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Collecting Areas |
English
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Language |
Latin
Greek
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Provenance |
Donated by L. Tom Perry Special Collections at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
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Subject |
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Type |
Plato
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Bibliographic Citation |
Plato, 428/427-348/347 BCE. Platonis Opera Omnia. Vol. 2. 2 Vol. Geneva: Henri Estienne II, 1578.
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