- In the Hippias Major, Socrates and Hippias set out to find a definition for "beauty", but are destined to fail due to their inability to formulate an answer which...
- HIPPIAS: What else do you suppose, Socrates, than that they were not able to compass by their wisdom both public and private matters?
- The concept du jour in the Hippias Major is a tough one: the Greek term is kallos, and is broadly translate as “fineness.”
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- The Hippias Major takes up the question “What is the beautiful (the fine)?” Widely agreed to be spurious are Axiochus, Definitions, Demodocus, Epinomis, Eryxias...
- Hippias Major. Catalogue of Titles. ... SOCRATES: Hippias, beautiful and wise, what a long time it is since you have put in at the port of Athens!
- Uncompressed 24-bit 192 kHz WAV64 version of the LibriVox recording of Hippias Major by Plato. Translated by George Burges.
- Hippias Major (ΙΠΠΙΑΣ ΜΕΙΖΩΝ) may not have been written by Plato. The dialogue discusses what true beauty is and includes a maiden, gold and a porridge...
- Hippias Major considers the question of what is beautiful, though really only reached conclusions about what it is not.
- Hippias Major. Hippias Major , so called because it is longer than Hippias Minor , is a highly disputed dialogue, although in recent years scholarly judgment...
