The bibliography below is meant as a highly selective and limited guide for readers who want to learn more about the issues covered above. Further discussion of these and other issues regarding Plato’s philosophy, and far more bibliographical information, is available in the other entries on Plato.

Primary Literature

• Cooper, John M. (ed.), 1997, Plato: Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Contains translations of all the works handed down from antiquity with attribution to Plato, some of which are universally agreed to be spurious, with explanatory footnotes and both a general Introduction to the study of the dialogues and individual Introductory Notes to each work translated.) (Scholar)
• Burnyeat, Myles and Michael Frede, 2015, The Pseudo-Platonic Seventh Letter, Dominic Scott (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Ahbel-Rappe, Sara, and Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), 2006, A Companion to Socrates, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Allen, Danielle, S., 2010, Why Plato Wrote, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Annas, Julia, 2003, Plato: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Arruzza, Cinzia, 2019, A Wolf in the City: Tyrrany and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Atack, Carol, 2024, Plato: A Civic Life, London: Reaktion Books. (Scholar)
• Barney, Rachel, Tad Brennan, and Charles Brittain (eds.), 2012, Plato and the Divided Self, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Benson, Hugh (ed.), 2006, A Companion to Plato, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, Clitophon’s Challenge: Dialectic in Plato’s Meno, Phaedo, and Republic, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Betegh, Gábor, 2022, “Plato on Philosophy and the Mysteries,” in 2022, David Ebrey and Richard Kraut (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Blondell, Ruby, 2002, The Play of Character in Plato’s Dialogues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Bobonich, Christopher, 2002, Plato’s Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Boys-Stone George, and Christopher Rowe (eds.), 2013, The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Brandwood, Leonard, 1990, The Chronology of Plato’s Dialogues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Brickhouse, Thomas C. & Nicholas D. Smith, 1994, Plato’s Socrates, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Broadie, Sarah, 2012, Nature and Divinity in Plato’s Timaeus, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Brown, Eric, 2022, “Plato’s Socrates and His Conception of Philosophy,” in 2022 David Ebrey and Richard Kraut (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Dancy, Russell, 2004, Plato’s Introduction of Forms, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Destrée, Pierre and Zina Giannopoulos (eds.), 2017, Plato’s Symposium: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Ebrey, David and Richard Kraut (eds.), 2022, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022b, “Introduction to the Study of Plato,” in David Ebrey and Richard Kraut (eds.), 2022, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–38. (Scholar)
• Ebrey, David, 2022, “The Unfolding Account of Forms in the Phaedo,” in David Ebrey and Richard Kraut (eds.), 2022, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, second edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2023, Plato’s Phaedo: Forms, Death, and the Philosophical Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Fine, Gail (ed.), 1999, Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1999, Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2008, The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Essays by many scholars on a wide range of topics, including several studies of individual dialogues.) (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Plato, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Frede, Michael, 1992, “Plato’s Arguments and the Dialogue Form,” in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 1992, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 201–220. (Scholar)
• Griswold, Charles L. (ed.), 1988, Platonic Writings, Platonic Readings, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Guthrie, W.K.C., 1971, Socrates, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1975, A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 4, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1978, A History of Greek Philosophy, Volume 5, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Irwin, Terence, 1995, Plato’s Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kahn, Charles H., 1996, Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, “On Platonic Chronology,” in Julia Annas and Christopher Rowe (eds.), New Perspectives on Plato: Modern and Ancient, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, chapter 4. (Scholar)
• Kamtekar, Rachana, 2017, Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, The Divided Soul, and the Desire for the Good, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Klagge, James C. and Nicholas D. Smith (eds.), 1992, Methods of Interpreting Plato and His Dialogue, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 1992, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Kraut, Richard (ed.), 1992, The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, How to Read Plato, London: Granta. (Scholar)
• Laks, André, 2022, Plato’s Second Republic: An Essay on the Laws, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Lane, Melissa, 2023, Of Rule and Office: Plato’s Ideas of the Political, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Ledger, Gerald R., 1989, Re-Counting Plato: A Computer Analysis of Plato’s Style, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• McCabe, Mary Margaret, 1994, Plato’s Individuals, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Plato and His Predecessors: The Dramatisation of Reason, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Meinwald, Constance, 2016, Plato, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Morrison, Donald R., 2012, The Cambridge Companion to Socrates, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Nails, Debra, 1995, Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics, Indianapolis: Hackett. (An encyclopedia of information about the characters in all of the dialogues.) (Scholar)
• Nightingale, Andrea, 1993, Genres in Dialogue: Plato and the Construction of Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, Philosophy and Religion in Plato’s Dialogues, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Peterson, Sandra, 2011, Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Press, Gerald A. (ed.), 2000, Who Speaks for Plato? Studies in Platonic Anonymity, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Prior, William J., 2019, Socrates, Cambridge: Polity Press. (Scholar)
• Rowe, C.J., 2007, Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Rowe, Christopher, & Malcolm Schofield (eds.), 2000, Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Contains 7 introductory essays by 7 hands on Socratic and Platonic political thought.) (Scholar)
• Rudebusch, George, 2009, Socrates, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Russell, Daniel C., 2005, Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Rutherford, R.B., 1995, The Art of Plato: Ten Essays in Platonic Interpretation, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Santas, Gerasimos, 1979, Socrates: Philosophy in Plato’s Early Dialogues, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Scholar)
• Sayre, Kenneth, 1995, Plato’s Literary Garden, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. (Scholar)
• Schofield, Malcolm, 2006, Plato: Political Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2023, How Plato Writes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Scott, Dominic, 2015, Levels of Argument: A Comparative Study of Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Silverman, Allan, 2002, The Dialectic of Essence: A Study of Plato’s Metaphysics, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Smith, Nicholas D. and Thomas C. Brickhouse, 1994, Plato’s Socrates, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Scholar)
• –––and John Bussanich (eds.), 2015, The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Taylor, C.C.W., 1998, Socrates, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Thakarr, Jonny, 2018, Plato as Critical Theorist, Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Thesleff, Holger, 1982, Studies in Platonic Chronology, Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 70, Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica. (Scholar)
• Vander Waerdt, Paul. A. (ed.), 1994, The Socratic Movement, Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Vasiliou, Iakovos, 2008, Aiming at Virtue in Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Vlastos, Gregory, 1991, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995, Studies in Greek Philosophy (Volume 2: Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition), Daniel W. Graham (ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Waterfield, Robin, 2023, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• White, Nicholas P., 1976, Plato on Knowledge and Reality, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)
• Young, Charles M., 1994, “Plato and Computer Dating,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 12: 227–250. (Scholar)
• Zuckert, Catherine H., 2009, Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)