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The Thrasyllan Tetralogies

The complete works of Plato arranged in nine groups of four, the ordering handed down by Thrasyllus.

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Tetralogy I · The trial and death of Socrates

1. Euthyphro — Plato
2. Apology — Plato
3. Crito — Plato
4. Phaedo — Plato

Tetralogy II · Knowledge, names, and method

1. Cratylus — Plato
2. Theaetetus — Plato
3. Sophist — Plato
4. Statesman — Plato

Tetralogy III · Being, the good, and love

1. Parmenides — Plato
2. Philebus — Plato
3. Symposium — Plato
4. Phaedrus — Plato

Tetralogy IV · The self and its goods

1. Alcibiades I — Plato
2. Alcibiades II — Plato
3. Hipparchus — Plato
4. The Rival Lovers — Plato

Tetralogy V · Virtue and friendship

1. Theages — Plato
2. Charmides — Plato
3. Laches — Plato
4. Lysis — Plato

Tetralogy VI · Sophistry against virtue

1. Euthydemus — Plato
2. Protagoras — Plato
3. Gorgias — Plato
4. Meno — Plato

Tetralogy VII · Beauty, art, and speech

1. Hippias Major — Plato
2. Hippias Minor — Plato
3. Ion — Plato
4. Menexenus — Plato

Tetralogy VIII · The just city and the cosmos

1. Clitophon — Plato
2. Republic — Plato
3. Timaeus — Plato
4. Critias — Plato

Tetralogy IX · Law and the divine

1. Minos — Plato
2. Laws — Plato
3. Epinomis — Plato
4. Epistles — Plato