This new edition of Plato’s Gorgias consists of a revised Greek Text, a Running Commentary presented in the form of Footnotes, and an annotated Translation into English, including an Introduction to the Greek text, an Introduction to the English translation, several special Appendices, and an Index Locorum of all passages cited from ancient authors. The work is being published as a book by Academica Press, January 2025, and is here presented for download in several digital formats:
STANDARD FORMAT
The English Translation followed by the Revised Greek Text with Exegetical Footnotes sharing the page, in the manner of the older philological commentaries: PDF ODT
CONTINUOUS GREEK FORMAT
The English Translation followed by the Revised Greek Text presented continuously, with Exegetical Footnotes to the Greek Text (including apparatus criticus) relocated to the end, but available within the text by hovering over the footnote numbers: PDF ODT
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
The English Translation alone, with footnotes explaining realia to facilitate continuous reading (lower case roman numerals), with a selection of longer exegetical notes presented as endnotes, available also by hovering (over their Arabic numerals): PDF ODT
GREEK TEXT WITH EXPANDED APPARATUS
The Greek Text alone, with generous apparatus criticus below: PDF ODT
GREEK TEXT WITH FACING TRANSLATION
New text and new translation face-en-face, in the manner of the Loeb Series, with abbreviated apparatus: PDF ODT
It is hoped that this presentation in navigable digital files will
obviate the need for a desk as cluttered as Gustave Geffroy’s, a
condition familiar to the philologist:
This work was composed in the magnificent free & open-source program LibreOffice,
available at www.libreoffice.org.
The four versions of this edition, described above, are here made available for download, both
as Portable Document Format files (.pdf) and as LibreOffice Writer files (.odt).
The LibreOffice files and program provide superior navigation and word search facilities through
the Navigation Pane of the program, with which the Reader can jump to and from Stephanus page
numbers in both the Greek and English texts, as well as jump from footnote to footnote and
back, search for words in Greek or English, and navigate from the Index Locorum.
I wish to thank my publisher, Prof. Paul du Quenoy and his Academica Press, for permission to make this material available here.
About the Author
Kenneth Quandt holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley (1979), and has in recent years written several commentaries on Plato’s Dialogues and translated works by Reinhold Knoll (Vienna), Monique Dixsaut (Paris), and Norbert Blößner (Berlin). These works are currently available as follows:
www.onplatosrepublic.com (2011).
www.onplatoslaches.com (2013).
www.onthenewloebrepublic.com (2015)
– an extensive review of the 2013 Loeb edition of Plato’s Republic, replacing that of Paul Shorey.
Plato–Nietzsche: Philosophy the Other Way (2017)
– a tr. of M. Dixsaut Platon–Nietzsche: L’Autre manière de philosopher (2015).
The Revelation of Art-Religion with R. Knoll (2018).
The Phaedrus of Plato, A Translation with Dialogical Analysis (2020).
Letters to My Grandchildren with R. Knoll (2022).
Inventing the Philosopher: An Essay on the Dialogues of Plato (2023)
– a tr. of M. Dixsaut, Le Naturel philosophe (2016).
The Gorgias of Plato: Revised Text, Exegetical Notes, New Translation (2025).
The Sophist of Plato: Text, Translation, and Commentary (forthcoming)
– a tr. of M. Dixsaut, Platon. Le Sophiste (2022).
Dialogue Form and Argument: Studies in Plato’s Politeia (forthcoming)
– a tr. of N. Blößner, Dialogform und Argument: Studien zu Platons ‘Politeia’ (1997).