Plato in the library (11 works)
- Plato: Euthyphro — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Socrates, on trial for impiety, asks what piety is. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Apology — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Socrates' defence before the Athenian jury. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Crito — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Socrates in prison refuses to escape: why one must not repay wrong with wrong. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Phaedo — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Socrates' last day and his arguments for the immortality of the soul. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Symposium — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Speeches on love, ending with Diotima's ladder from earthly beauty to Beauty itself. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Phaedrus — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Love, the soul's ascent and the art of speaking truly. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Gorgias — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Rhetoric and power against justice: better to suffer wrong than to do it. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Meno — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Can virtue be taught? Knowledge as recollection. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: The Republic — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Justice in the soul and the city; the Cave, the Good and the philosopher-king. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Timaeus — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
The making of the world by a good Craftsman, the dialogue the Fathers knew best. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.
- Plato: Laws — 4th century BC; translation 1871–1892
Plato's last work: a law-code for a city, with his natural theology in Book X. Pagan philosophy, read by the Fathers as a preparation for the Gospel.