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Dialogues (arranged in trilogies by Aristophanes of Byzantium)

Known · Attestedin Alexandria?Conjecturedvery likely class

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I · The entry, in his form

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Conjecturedvery likely class

Plato

Dialogues

Opening words not preserved.

Length: not counted

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II · Does it survive? Where to read it

Survives whole

Was it in Alexandria?

Known · Attested

Edited in Alexandria.

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IV · Sources and the living entry

Ancient references
  • Diogenes Laertius 3.56-62
Modern scholarship (2)
  • H. Tarrant, Thrasyllan Platonism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).
  • R. Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968)

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DIALOGUES

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