Gorgias
Translated from the Greek by inaporia, 2026. © 4xxi Software Ltd.
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Gorgias447a–461b
1After the feast447a–448a2Polus answers for Gorgias448a–449b3Briefly: what is rhetoric about?449b–450c4Arts that work by speech450c–451a5A model answer: numbers and stars451a–451c6The greatest affairs and a drinking song451d–452e7The craftsman of persuasion. Zeuxis452e–454a8Which persuasion, about what?454a–455a9What to advise the city on455a–456a10Gorgias on the power of rhetoric456a–457c11How arguments turn to quarrels457c–458e12Orator and doctor before a crowd458e–460a13Whoever has learned what is just460a–461b
Polus461b–481b
14Polus steps in461b–462b15If not an art, then what?462b–462d16A part of what?462d–463d17Body, soul and a seeming good condition463d–464e18A table of arts464e–466a19Do orators have great power?466a–466e20Power as a good466e–467e21Good, bad and in between467e–468e22Whom to envy, whom to pity468e–469c23What it is to be a tyrant469c–469e24Is Archelaus happy?470a–470e25How Archelaus came to power471a–471d26Even a child could refute you471d–472d27Paid the penalty or got away472d–473b28The captured plotter473b–474c29Fine and shameful474c–475c30Two points in dispute475d–476a31What the punished undergoes476a–477a32Poverty, sickness, injustice477a–478b33To be treated or never be ill478b–478e34Fleeing the doctor478e–479e35What is rhetoric good for?480a–481b
Callicles: nature and law481b–491d
36In earnest or in jest?481b–482c37Callicles: shame, nature, law482c–483b38The law of the weak and nature's justice483b–484c39Callicles on philosophy484c–485d40Zethus and Amphion485d–486b41Unable to help oneself486b–487b42How far to pursue wisdom487b–488b43Better, superior, stronger488b–489b44Whom Callicles calls better489b–489e45A doctor at a shared table490a–491a46Intelligent in the city's affairs491a–491d
Callicles: pleasure491d–500a
47Ruling oneself491d–492c48Are those who need nothing happy?492d–493d49Two lives, temperate and unrestrained493d–494c50The itch and consistency494c–495c51Of Acharnae and of Alopece495c–496b52Thirst and drinking496c–497a53Gorgias asks him to go on497a–497e54The unintelligent, cowards and joy497e–498e55Let us reckon together498e–500a
Callicles: rhetoric again500a–505c
Callicles: how to live, how to survive505c–514a
62A tale without a head505c–506c63From the beginning506c–507c64Heaven, earth and order507c–508c65Callicles' reproaches508c–509c66Two evils: doing and suffering injustice509c–510a67How not to suffer injustice510a–511a68To live as long as possible?511a–512b69Your daughter for his son?512b–512d70The women who draw down the moon512d–514a
Callicles: the politicians of Athens514a–522e
71Testing a builder514a–515b72Did the Athenians become better?515b–516d73Cimon, Themistocles, Miltiades516d–517c74Two ways of caring for the body517c–518a75A baker, a cook and a retailer518a–519b76A politician ruined by his city519b–520c77The pupil made fast520c–521a78To fight or to serve?521a–521c79If I am brought to court521c–522b80What help a man needs522b–522e
The last judgement523a–527e
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