A short biography:
Plato was born around the year 428 BCE in Athens. His father died while Plato was young, and his mother remarried to Pyrilampes, in whose house Plato would grow up. Plato's birth name was Aristocles, and he gained the nickname Platon, meaning broad, because of his broad build. His family had a history in politics, and Plato was destined to a life in keeping with this history. He studied at a gymnasium owned by Dionysios, and at the palaistra of Ariston of Argos. When he was young he studied music and poetry. According to Aristotle, Plato developed the foundations of his metaphysics and epistemology by studying the doctrines of Cratylus, and the work of Pythagoras and Parmenides. When Plato met Socrates, however, he had met his definitive teacher. As Socrates' disciple, Plato adopted his philosophy and style of debate, and directed his studies toward the question of virtue and the formation of a noble character.
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Title | Year | Pages | Read |
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Apology | Yes | Unread | |
Charmides, or Temperance | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Cratylus | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Critias | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Crito | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Euthydemus | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Euthyphro | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Gorgias | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Ion | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Laches, or Courage | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Laws | 360 B.C. | No | Unread |
Lysis, or Friendship | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Meno | 380 B.C. | No | Unread |
Parmenides | 370 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Phaedo | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Phaedrus | 360 B.C. | Yes | Read |
Philebus | 360 B.C. | No | Unread |
Protagoras | 380 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
The Republic | 360 B.C. | No | Unread |
The Seventh Letter | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Sophist | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Statesman | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Symposium | 360 B.C. | No | Unread |
Theaetetus | 360 B.C. | Yes | Unread |
Timaeus | 360 B.C. | No | Unread |
more: http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/platochron.html