How

to Read Plato in a Year

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Work
Laws
Parmenides
Protagoras
Alcibiades I
Alcibiades II
Charmides
Laches
Hippias Major
Hippias Minor
Symposium
Phaedrus
Ion
Clitophon
Republic
Philebus
Timaeus
Critias
Theages
Euthydemus
Lysis
Gorgias
Meno
Theaetetus
Euthyphro
Cratylus
Sophist
Statesman
Apology
Crito
Phaedo
Menexenus

Dramatic Date1
460-450
450
433-432
432
432
429
423
421-420
421-420
416
415
413
411
411
none
409-408
409-408
409
407
406
405
402-401
399
399
399
399
399
399
399
399
387-386
TOTAL

Approx. # Pages2
300
40
45
40
10
25
25
25
15
50
50
15
10
250
60
70
15
15
40
20
80
30
80
20
60
60
65
20
15
50
15
1615

SAMPLE SCHEDULES
50 weeks, 6 days per week = 300 days = 5.5 pages per day
50 weeks, 5 days per week = 250 days = 6.5 pages per day
48 weeks, 5 days per week = 240 days = 6.75 pages per day
45 weeks, 5 days per week = 225 days = 7 pages per day

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From Platos Philosophers, by Catherine Zuckert (University of Chicago Press, 2012). All dates are BC.
From Plato: Complete Works, edited by John Cooper (Hackett, 1997).