Three more down

So, I've knocked out three dialogs since my last post.

First being Hippias Minor, or Hippias the Lesser, or On Lying, whatever you want to call it. Either way, it's about lying. Not so much the morality of lying, but about how knowledgeable someone has to be to be a good liar. Structurally uninteresting though. Sad, but true.

Next is Lysis, which is about what exactly friendship is. Again, structurally uninteresting. Atleast since it's only uniqueness when compared to the rest of Plato's works I've already found in Phaedo (granted Phaedo was probably written after Lysis)

And finally, the Symposium. It's about the nature of love, and the origins of Eros, who is either a God or a Demi-Godish creature depending on who in the dialog you listen to. It get's creepy because they talk rather frequently about how much they want to have relations with Socrates -shudder-. Anyways, the dialog seems heavily to have been an exercise in rhetoric for Plato, since each of the interlocutors use a long speech instead of the normal short question and answer method that Plato liked so much.

So, I'm done, but here is something interesting. It seems that some folks have done studies on the structure of known dialogs of Plato. It seems he used musical structure in his dialogs. I thought this was kind of cool, and might help weed out the true dialogs from the spurious. And so could the use of software that finds patterns in word uses by an author. Just a thought.

Have fun