- Hippias Major, is one of the dialogues of Plato, although its authenticity has been doubted. It belongs to the early dialogues, written while the author was still young.
- The concept du jour in the Hippias Major is a tough one: the Greek term is kallos, and is broadly translate as “fineness.”
- HIPPIAS: What else do you suppose, Socrates, than that they were not able to compass by their wisdom both public and private matters?
- Other articles where Hippias Major is discussed: Plato: Varia: The Hippias Major takes up the question “What is the beautiful (the fine)?”
- Reference address : https://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-Greece/plato/plato-hippias-major.asp.
- Hippias Major. Hippias Major, so called because it is longer than Hippias Minor, is a highly disputed dialogue, although in recent years scholarly judgment...
- Uncompressed 24-bit 192 kHz WAV64 version of the LibriVox recording of Hippias Major by Plato. Translated by George Burges.
- The question of ontological commitment in Plato’s Hippias Major has been important in disputes over the dialogue’s place in the corpus, its meaning, and its...
- ...search of an answer” (Vasilis Politis, [2018] “Plato’s Geach Talks to Socrates: Definition by Example-and-Exemplar in the Hippias Major,” Phronesis 63 [3]: 224).
