- Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
- Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
- Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).
SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>
Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Plato.
| DATABASE |
SEARCH
TERMS |
RESULTS |
| Academic Search Premier | plato Perform the basic search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full Text," and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) journals." |
Provides a large number of relevant items. |
| African American History and Culture | plato Perform the default search. |
Provides a biography and a photo. |
| Arts & Sciences Collection | plato JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collection, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details). |
Provides a small number of excellent items and a few reviews. |
| Contemporary Authors | plato Perform the default search. |
Provides a profile of the author's life and works. Includes an extensive list for further reading about the author. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | plato Perform the default search. |
Provides a primary encyclopedia article, several related articles and a number of Web sites. |
| Expanded Academic ASAP | plato Perform the Keyword search, NOT the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text" and "to refereed publication." |
Provides a large number of worthy items. |
| Literature Resource Center | plato Perform the default (author) search. After you perform your search, select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles (many are full-text). |
Provides a small number of quality documents. |
| Research Library Complete | plato Perform the basic search. Set the "Database" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary -Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and "Scholarly journals." |
Provides a good number of excellent items. |
| Scribner's |
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Provides an essay about the author and his works, along with a bibliography and a supplement. |
| SIRS Renaissance | plato Perform the "Quick Search." |
Provides a small number of excellent items. |
SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>
- The following bibliography
is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
- Circulating books
not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary
loan.
- eBooks are electronic
books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide
via the Internet.
Plato's theory of knowledge ; The Theaetetus and the Sophist
B386 .A5 C6 2003
Location: Troy, AL; Phenix CityA companion to Plato's Republic
JC71.P6 W47 1979
Location: Troy, AL; DothanOn homosexuality: Lysis, Phaedrus, and Symposium
HQ76.2.G8 P572 1991
Location: Troy, ALEducation: ends and means
LB41.E3346 1982
Location: Troy, ALComplete works
B393.D7 1959X
Location: Troy, ALThe Second Story of Meno
Location: eBookPlato's Parmenides
Location: eBookEuthyphro
Location: eBookThe symposium; and, the phaedrus: Plato's erotic dialogues
Location: eBookThe Plato reader
Location: eBookTheaetetus
Location: eBookLesser hippias
Location: eBookStatesman
Location: eBookSophist
Location: eBookCrito
Location: eBookCritias
Location: eBookCharmides, or temperance
Location: eBookAlcibiades I
Location: eBookLaws
Location: eBookThe republic
Location: eBookApology
Location: eBookMenexenus
Location: eBookPhilebus
Location: eBookCratylus
Location: eBookProtagoras
Location: eBookGorgias
Location: eBookEssays on Plato and Aristotle
Location: eBookGenres in dialogue: Plato and the construct of philosophy
Location: eBookIn Plato's cave
Location: eBookAn introduction to Plato's republic
Location: eBookOf myth, life, and war in Plato's republic
Location: eBookPlato on the human paradox
Location: eBook
Plato within your grasp
Location: eBookThe dialogues of Plato
Location: eBook
SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>
- The Republic of
Plato
http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/PlaRepu.html
- Plato
http://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/Philosophy/Plato.html
- Plato
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Plato.html
- Plato and His Dialogues
http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/suzanne.htm
- Plato (about 427-347
B.C.)
http://www.crystalinks.com/plato.html
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