Gorgias: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Gorgias, credited to Plato (Platon), is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Gorgias by Plato. Read by Kevin Johnson. Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893) This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of "Republic" and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in his wonderful introduction, has many ideas akin to Christianity, but is more generous as it reserves damnation only for the tyrants of the world. Some of the truths of Socrates, as presented by Plato, shine forth in this wonderful work on sophistry and other forms of persuasion or cookery. (Summary by Kevin Johnson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Gorgias
• Author credits: Plato (Platon)
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 7:06:36

Catalogue topics

• Philosophy
• Greek

Track guide

1. 01 — 34:36
2. 02 — 44:36
3. 03 — 46:03
4. 04 — 48:35
5. 05 — 34:42
6. 06 — 37:53
7. 07 — 39:58
8. 08 — 41:51
9. 09 — 35:00
10. 10 — 33:20
11. 11 — 30:04

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