This edition includes the entire surviving corpus attributed to Plato in antiquity. In addition to the texts, it contains introductions to the works, discussion on the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and guidance on reading and studying Plato.

CONTENTS (All books translated by Benjamin Jowett)- Part 1: Early DialoguesThe ApologyCritoCharmidesLachesLysisEuthyphroMenexenusIonGorgiasProtagorasMeno- Part 2: Middle DialoguesEuthydemusCratylusPhaedoPhaedrusThe SymposiumTheaetetusParmenides- Part 3: Late DialoguesSophistStatesmanPhilebusTimaeusCritias- Part 4: The RepublicI: Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and their OppositesII: The Individual, the State, and EducationIII: The Arts in EducationIV: Wealth, Poverty, and VirtueV: On Matrimony and PhilosophyVI: The Philosophy of GovernmentVII: On Shadows and Realities in EducationVIII: Four Forms of GovernmentIX: On Wrong or Right Government, and the Pleasures of EachX: The Recompense of Life- Part 5: The LawsBooks I-XII