Guides: Plato Research Guide: Scholia and Commentaries

Introduction

This page lists some of the scholia and commentaries on Plato's works which are in Mullen Library's collection. The left column contains select scholia while the right column contains select commentaries and a resource on Greek scholarship (discusses locating and understanding Greek scholia and commentaries).

Select Scholia Available at Mullen Library

Scholia Platonica
Allen, F. D., John Burnet, William Chase Greene, and Charles Pomeroy Parker. Haverfordiae in civitate Pennsylvaniae: in lvcem protvlit Societas Philologica Americana, 1938. PA4288 .A5 1938 (Greek and Latin Reading Room)
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This scholia is in Greek with a preface in Latin.

The Academy of Plato

This image shows Plato (seated) talking to students at his academy.

Object Type: Print

Materials: Paper

Techniques: Etching and Drypoint

Production Person: Print made by Salvator Rosa

Date: 1662

Select Commentaries Available at Mullen Library

The commentaries are in English or English translations of commentaries in another language such as Latin; the language of the commentary is indicated in the description.

The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Benardete, Seth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. B358 .B46 1984 (Stacks)
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This book provides an English translation of Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman, commentary in English for each translation, and a selected bibliography.
Commentaries on Plato
Ficino, Marsilio. The I Tatti Renaissance Library Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008-. B395 .F4713 2008 (Stacks)
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Volume 1 has Marsilio Ficino's commentaries on Plato's Phaedrus and Ion. Ficino, a Florentine scholar-philosopher, was responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This book consists of Ficino’s texts (Phaedrus, commentary on the Phaedrus, chapter summaries of the Phaedrus, and introduction to the Ion) in Latin with English translation on facing pages; the introduction and notes are in English.
Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus
Proclus. Translated by Harold Tarrant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. B387 .P7613 2007 (Stacks)
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These books, volume 1 (Book 1) and 2 (Book 3 part 1), provide an introduction to Proclus' commentary on the Timaeus in English, an English translation and commentary in English (appears as footnotes)
Laws 10
Mayhew, Robert. Clarendon Plato series Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press, 2008. JC71 .P22 2008 (Stacks)
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Both the translation and the commentary are in English.
Marsilio Ficino: The Philebus Commentary
Ficino, Marsilio. Translated by Michael J. B. Allen Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. B 381 .A5 A45 1979 (Stacks)
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This book provides a lengthy introduction to Marsilio Ficino and his commentary on Plato's Philebus, Ficino's commentary in English translation and in Latin, and images of several manuscripts.
Plato, Clitophon
Slings, S. R. (ed.). Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. B391.C52 E5 1999 (Greek and Latin Reading Room)
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This book contains a lengthy introduction to Plato's Clitophon, the Greek text of the Clitophon, an English translation, and a commentary in English of the Greek text. A bibliography of the Clitophon and general works on Plato and Socrates is included as well.
Plato's Crito
Rose, Gilbert P. Bryn Mawr commentaries. Bryn Mawr, PA: Dept. of Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1983. PA4279.C8 A2 R67, 1983 (Stacks)
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The book contains the Greek text of Plato's Crito with English commentary.
Plato's Euthyphro
Hare, John E. Bryn Mawr Commentaries Bryn Mawr, PA: Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College, 1985. PA4279.E9 A2 H37. 1985 (Stacks)
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This book contains the Greek text Plato's Euthyphro with English commentary.
Plato’s Euthyphro & Clitophon: Commentary with Introduction, Glossary, and Vocabulary
Bailly, Jacques A. Newburyport, MA: Focus Pub./R. Pullins, 2003. B370 .B35 2003 (Stacks)
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This book provides an introduction in English to the Euthyphro and Clitophon, the Greek text of the Euthyphro and Clitophon, comments on Greek passages in English, commentary in English (word-by-word and line-by-line) regarding the Greek text of the Euthyphro and Clitophon, and vocabulary (Greek words followed by English translations).
Plato's Ion
Miller, Andrew M. Bryn Mawr Commentaries Bryn Mawr, PA: Dept. of Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1984. PA4279.I7 A2 M55. 1984 (Stacks)
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The book contains the Greek text of Plato's Ion with English commentary.
Plato’s Lysis
Race, William H. Bryn Mawr Commentaries Bryn Mawr, PA: Dept. of Greek, Bryn Mawr College, 1983. PA4279.L8 A2 R33, 1983 (Stacks)
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The book contains the Greek text of Plato’s Lysis with English commentary.
Plato's Protagoras: Translation, Commentary, and Appendices
Arieti, James A. and Roger M. Barrus (eds.). Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010. B382.A5 A74 2010 (Stacks)
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This book, in English, provides an introduction to the Protagoras, a translation, commentary (appears as footnotes underneath the translation passages), and a glossary (providing the English translation, Greek word, and explanation).

Print Sources for Reading Scholia and Commentaries on Plato

Ancient Greek Scholarship by Eleanor Dickey
Call Number: PA53 .D53 2007 (Greek and Latin Reading Room)
ISBN: 9780195312928
Publication Date: 2007-04-05
This book provides an introduction to reading and understanding Greek scholia, commentaries, lexica, and grammatical treatises. The extensive annotated bibliography (more than 1,000 works), evaluation of the texts, and glossary of grammatical terms will be useful as well.