Author: Plato

Cited by

• Eric Weiner (1)
  • IN: The Geography of Genius (2016) Non-Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is honoured in a country will be cultivated there.
    FROM: Republic, (-375), Book, Greece
• Jo Walton (4)
  • IN: Necessity (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Socrates: Tell me then, oh tell me-what is the great and splendid work which the gods achieve with the help of our devotions? Euthyphro: Many and fair are the works of the gods.
    FROM: Euthyphro, (-397), Book, Greece
  • IN: The Just City (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Wherever you go, there are plenty of places where you will find a welcome; and if you choose to go to Thessaly, I have friends there who will make muych of you and give you complete protection, so that non one in Thessaly can interfere with you.
    FROM: Crito, (-399), Book, Greece
• Ros Barber (2)
  • IN: The Marlowe Papers (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
  • IN: The Marlowe Papers: Novel in Verse (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Mary Renault (1)
  • IN: The Mask of Apollo (1966) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tears were for Hekabe, friend, and for Ilion's women, Spun into the dark Web on the day of their birth, But for you our hopes were great, and great the triumph, Cancelled alike by the gods at the point of glory. Now you like in your own land, now all men honour you-- But I loved you, O Dion!
    FROM: translated by Dudley Fitts, (None), NULL, Greece
• José Saramago (2)
  • IN: The Cave (2000) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What a strange scene you describe and what strange prisoners, They are just like us.
    FROM: The Republic, Book VII, (-375), Book, Greece
• Kate Atkinson (1)
  • IN: Life After Life (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Everything changes and nothing remains still.
    FROM: Cratylus, (-400), Book, Greece
• William Bernhardt (1)
  • IN: The Game Master (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Yvonne Woon (1)
  • IN: Life Eternal (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Supernatural Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt and fuse you together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul, instead of two...
    FROM: Symposium, (-370), Book, Greece
• Marcus Blake (1)
  • IN: Atlantis: Revelation (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Afterwards, there occured violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.
    FROM: Timaeus, (-360), Book, Greece
• Michal Ajvaz (1)
  • IN: The Golden Age (2001) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: And they are each other than one another, as being plural and not singular; for if one is not, they cannot be singular but every particle of them is infinite in number; and even if a person takes that which appears to be the smallest fraction, this, which seemed one, in a moment evanesces into many, as in a dream, and from being the smallest becomes very great, in comparison with the fractions into which it is split up.
    FROM: Parmenides, (-370), Book, Greece
• Daniel Keyes (1)
  • IN: Flowers for Algernon (1959) Fiction, Science Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.
    FROM: The Republic, (-375), Book, Greece
• Tom Harper (1)
  • IN: The Orpheus Descent (2013) Fiction, German
    EPIGRAPH: No one in his right mind would try to express his deepest thoughts in words -- let alone put them down in writing.
    FROM: Letter 7, (-352), Letter, Greece
• Amy Hatvany (1)
  • IN: Heart Like Mine (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Michael Palmer (1)
  • IN: The fifth vial (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The beginning is the most important part of any work.
    FROM: The Republic, Book II, (-375), Book, Greece
• Daphne Kalotay (1)
  • IN: Sight Reading (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: For harmony is a symphony, and a symphony is an agreement...; and thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Donna Tartt (1)
  • IN: The Secret History (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
    FROM: Republic, book ii, (-375), Book, Greece
• Jonathan Maberry (1)
  • IN: Ghostwalkers (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
    FROM: Socrates in "Apology", (-389), Book, Greece
• Henning Mankell (1)
  • IN: A Treacherous Paradise (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are three kinds of people: those who are dead, those who are alive, and those who sail the seas.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Tommy Wieringa (2)
  • IN: Caesarion (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: And who,' I said, 'was his father, and who his mother?'
    FROM: Symposium, (-370), Book, Greece
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: Morella (1835) Horror, American
    EPIGRAPH: Αυτό χατ 'αυτά μετ' αύτοϋ μονοειδές α'ιεί φν.
    FROM: Symposium, (-370), Book, Greece
• Justin Torres (2)
  • IN: We the Animals (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now a boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage. For by how much the more he has the fountain of prudence not fitted up, he becomes crafty and keen, and the most insolent of wild beasts. On this account it is necessary to bind him, as it were, with many chains.
    FROM: The Laws, (-346), NULL, Greece
• Mona Simpson (1)
  • IN: Casebook (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything that deceives can be said to enchant.
    FROM: The Republic, (-375), NULL, Greece
• Tim Kring and Dale Peck (1)
  • IN: Shift: A Novel (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: yet the gods sent Orpheus away from Hades empty-handed …
    FROM: Symposium, (-370), Book, Greece
• Jennifer Miller (1)
  • IN: The Year of the Gadfly (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened when you are caught napping; and you may think that if you were to strike me dead as you easily might, then you would sleep on for the remainder of your lives, unless God in his care of you gives you another gadfly.
    FROM: Plato's Apology, (-399), Novel, Greece
• Ronald Frame (1)
  • IN: Havisham (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Love is in the one who loves, not in the one who is loved.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Mia Couto (1)
  • IN: Sleepwalking Land (1992) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: There are three kinds of men: The living, the dead and those who journey on the sea.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Charles Brockden Brown (1)
  • IN: Ormond; Or, The Secret Witness (1799) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sæpe intereunt allis meditantes necene. "Those who plot the destruction of others, very often fall themselves the victims."
    FROM: Phaedrus, (-370), NULL, Greece
• Alan Parks (1)
  • IN: Bloody January (2015) Crime Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘For indeed any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.’
    FROM: The Republic, (-375), NULL, Greece
• David Poyer (1)
  • IN: The Cruiser (2014) Thriller, American
    EPIGRAPH: He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Kami Garcia (1)
  • IN: Beautiful Darkness (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Joyce Carol Oates (1)
  • IN: Middle Age: A Romance (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... I was trying to find out the meaning of certain dreams...
    FROM: Socrates speaking in Plato's Phaedo, (-360), NULL, Italy
• Peter Tremayne (1)
  • IN: The Dove of Death (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Non semper ea sunt quae videntur. Things are not always what they appear to be.
    FROM: Phaedrus, (-370), Book, Greece
• Peter George (1)
  • IN: Commander-1 (1965) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I wonder if we could contrive some magnificent myth that would in itself carry conviction to our whole community.
    FROM: Plato's Republic, (-381), NULL, Greece