Reading List for No One Wiser

Last Updated: 2025-02-22

In preparation for writing No One Wiser, I am slowly reading the following books...

[x][r] Aristophanes: Clouds
Benardete: The Being of the Beautiful: Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Benardete: Socrates' Second Sailing: On Plato's Republic
Benardete: The Rhetoric and Morality of Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus
Benardete: The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato's Philebus
Benardete: Plato's Symposium
Burger: Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates
Blondell: The Play of Character in Plato's Dialogues
Cornford: Before and After Socrates
[r] D'Angour: Socrates in Love
Ferguson: Socrates: A Source Book
Guthrie: Socrates
Hanson - A War Like No Other
[x][r] Havelock: Preface to Plato
Howland: The Paradox of Political Philosophy
Kagan: The Peloponnesian War
Legutko: The Way of the Gadfly
[x][r] Melzer: Philosophy Between the Lines
Miller: The Philosopher in Plato's Statesman
[x][r] Nails: The People of Plato
Nilsson: Greek Piety
Priou: Musings on Plato's Symposium
Randall: Plato, Dramatist of the Life of Reason
Rhodes: Eros, Wisdom, and Silence
Rosen: Plato's Republic
Rosen: Plato's Sophist
Rosen: Plato's Statesman
Rosen: Plato's Symposium
Rudebusch: Socrates
Sayre: Plato's Analytic Method
Sayre: Plato's Literary Garden
Shorey: The Unity of Plato's Thought
[x][r] Stone: The Trial of Socrates
Strauss: The Argument and Action of Plato's Laws
Taylor: Socrates
Vlastos: Platonic Studies
Vlastos: The Philosophy of Socrates
Vlastos: Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Waterfield: Why Socrates Died
Zuckert: Plato's Philosophers

[x] denotes books I've read

[r] denotes books I need to re-read or further reference