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Analyses Plato's dialogues and areas them of their old environment
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Versation is manifestly due to the desire for dramatic life and colour. It is possible, may 20 PLATO : THE MAN AND HIS WORK permits of the sort of record of the by-play between the personages which contributes so much to the charm of the Phaedo. " " But the labour required to keep up the formula is so great that it is not surprising that Plato finally dropped it, and that the Theaetetm and all the works we find reason to place later are in the It of the story To me it seems highly probable, though of direct dialogue.
Epistles. Appendix, pp. 541-544, THE PLATONIC WRITINGS 17 whether in early'manhood, injmid life, or in old age, and again whether they are an unbroken series of compositions or whether there is evidence of a considerable gap or gaps in Plato's literary activity. These are the questions which we have now to face. The external evidence supplied by trustworthy testimony only assures us on one point. Aristotle tells us (Pol. 12646 26), what could in any case never have been doubted, that the Laws is later than the Republic.
The Alcibiades I has nothing in its language which requires a date later than the death of Plato, and nothing in its 1 There seems to be a definite polemic running through the dialogue " " is insane. Cf. sage against the Stoic thesis that every one but the Stoic in particular Ale. II, 1390-140^. ), with whom anti-Stoic polemic became the main public interest of the school For a discussion of the question see Appendix, pp. 528-9, THE PLATONIC WRITINGS 13 contents which is not thoroughly Platonic.