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PLATO PLATO PROTAGORAS EDITED BY NICHOLAS DENYER University Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Cambridge, and Fellow and College Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Trinity College, Cambnd dp CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS GENERAL EDITORS P E. EASTERLING Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge PnHiLiP HARDIE Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge RICHARD HuNTER Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge E. J. KENNEY Kennedy Professor Emeritus of Latin, University of Cambridge CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS University Prinung House, Cambridge 0852 88s, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, usa 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 4843/24, 2nd Floor, Ansari Road, Daryagan), Delhi - 110002, India 79 Anson Road, #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the Unrversity's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this tide: www.cambridgc.org/ 9780521549691 © Cambridge University Press 2008 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective hcensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2008 4th printing 2014 A catalogue record for this publication 1s available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Plato: Protagoras / edited by Nicholas Denyer. Ρ. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-521-84044-6 (hardback) 1. Plato. Protagoras. 2. Protagoras. 3. Socrates. 4. Sophists (Greek philosophy) 5. Ethics. I. Denyer, Nicholas. II. Tide. B382.P53 2008 170—dc22 2008015442 ISBN 978-0-521-84044-6 Hardback ISBN 978-0-521-54969-1 Paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites i5, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. CONTENTS Preface page vii Abbreviations and references IX Introduction 1 The sophists, Protagoras and the Protagoras 2 Socrates the sophist? 3 Plato and the example of Socrates 4 Endence for the text ΠΛΑΤΩΝΟΣ ΠΡΩΤΑΓΟΡΑΣ Commentary Indexes General Proper names Greek words PREFACE The Introduction to this book contains general remarks that could not conveniently be digested into the piecemeal format of the commentary. In spite of its name ‘Introduction’, and its position before the text, there is no need to have read the Introduction before starting to read the rest of the book. If some preliminary onentation to the Protagoras 1s required, it will be found in the italicised paragraphs of summary that are scattered throughout the commentary. I have incurred many intellectual debts in writing this book: to the Editors of this series; to the unfailingly efficient and helpful staff of that marvellous resource, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae; to those who took part in the Mayweek 2004 seminars on the Profagoras; to Bernard Dod, an exact and scrupulous copy-editor; and to Adam Beresford, Lynne Broughton, Myles Burnyeat, Andrea Capra, Giovanni di Pasquale, David Konstan, Geoffrey Lloyd, Catherine Osborne, Philomen Probert, Christopher Rowe, Catherine Steel, Liba Taub, Christopher Taylor, James Warren, Roslyn Weiss, andJ o Willmott. More important than any intellectual debt 15 my debt to my father, Ronald Denyer. He died while I was writing this book. I dedicate it to his memory. Trinity College, Cambridge N. C. D. 29 February 2008 ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES PLATO The page numbers of Stephanus’ 1578 edition continue to be printed in the margins of editions and translations, and used for references to the text of Plato. References to the Protagoras itself are given here simply in the form 345a6, where '345' is the number of a Stephanus page, ‘a’ the letter of a section within the page, and ‘6’ the number of a line within the section. References to other works in the Platonic corpus are given here by title (sometimes abbreviated), Stephanus page number and section letter. The following abbreviations are used: Ale. Ma. = Alcibiades Major, Alc. Mi. = Alcibiades Minor, Ap. = Apology, Chrm. = Charmides, Clit. = Clitophon, Cra. = Cratylus, Cri. = (πίο, Ep. = Epistles, Euthd. = Euthydemus, Euthphr. = Euthyphro, Grg. = Gorgias, Hp. Ma. = Hippias Major, Hp. Mi. = Hippias Minor, La. = Laches, Lys. = Lysts, Mux. = Menexenus, Phd. = Phaedo, Phdr. = Phaedrus, Phlb. = Philebus, Pit. = Politicus, Prm. = Parmenides, Rep. = Republic, Smp. = Symposium, Sph. = Sophist, Thg. = Theages, Tht. = Theaetetus, Tim. = Tunaeus OTHER ANCIENT AUTHORS AND WORKS Ael. Aelian Jara Historia Aesch. Aeschylus; Pr. τῷ Prometheus Bound Aeschin. Aeschines Amm. Ammonius On expressions that are similayret different Anax. Anaxagoras And. Andocides Anon. lamb. Anonymus lamblichi Ant. Antiphon Antisth. Antisthenes Anth. Pal. Anthologia Palatina Ar. Aristophanes; Ach. = Acharnians, Ec. = Ecclesiazousae, Lys. = Lysistrata, Pl. = Plutus, Th. = "ID hesmophoriazousae Arist. Aristotle; Ath. = Constitution of Athens, EE = Eudemian Ethics, EN = .Ntcomachean Ethics, Met. = Metaphysics, PA = Parts of Anunals, Pol. = Polttics, Prob. = Problems, Rh. = Rhetor, SE = Sophistici Elenchi LX ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES Athenaeus Bacchylides Cicero Critias Ctesias Demetrius On Style Democritus Demosthenes Diogenes Laertius Diodorus Siculus Empedocles Epicharmus Eupolis Euripides; Adc. = Alcestis, Bac. = Bacchae, Hipp. Hippolytus, [A = Iphigeneia in Aults, Med. = Medea Eustathius Gorgias Harpocration Lexicon Herodotus Heraclitus Hesiod; 7h. = Theogony, WD = Works and Days Hippocrates Homer; 1. = 1liad, Od. = Odyssey Isaeus Isocrates ‘Longinus’ On the sublime Lysias Menander; Dys. = Dyscolus, Sam. = Samia Pausamias Pindar; O. = Olympians, .N. = Nemeans Plutarch; Ale. = Alcibiades, Per. = Pericles Sophocles; 4j. = Ajax, Ant. = Antigone, OC = Oedipus at Colonus, OT = Oedipus Tyrannus, Phil. = Phüloctetes Theoenis Theophrastus Thucydides Xenophon; An. = Anabasis, Ap. = Apology, Ath. Pol. = Constitution of Athens, Cyr. = Cyropaedia, HG = Histona
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