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A. Translations
- Dalimier, Catherine (trans.), 1998, Platon: Cratyle
(Garnier Flammarion 954), Paris: Flammarion. (French) (Scholar)
- Fowler, Harold North (trans.), 1926, Plato: Cratylus,
Parmenides, Greater Hippias, Lesser Hippias (Loeb Classical
Library 167), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
(Greek/English) (Scholar)
- Méridier, Louis, 1931, Platon, Cratyle, Paris: Les
belles lettres. (French) (Scholar)
- Reeve, C. D. C., 1997, Plato, Cratylus: translated with
introduction and notes, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett. (Scholar)
- Schleiermacher, F. W. D., 1824, Platons Werke II 2,
Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung. (German) (Scholar)
- Staudacher, Peter, 2021, Platon: Kratylos. Übersetzung
und Kommentar, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht.
(German) (Scholar)
B. Greek text
- Duke, E. A., W. F. Hicken, W. S. M. Nicoll, D. B. Robinson, J. C.
G. Strachan (eds.), 1995, Platonis Opera, tomus I, Oxford:
Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
C. Commentary
D. Interpretation
- Ackrill, John L., 1994, “Language and Reality in
Plato’s Cratylus”, in Realtà e
Ragione: Studi di Filosofia Antica, Antonina M. Alberti (ed.),
(Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere. La Colombaria. Studi 140),
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 9–28. Reprinted in his Essays on
Plato and Aristotle, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, pp.
33–52. Page reference is to the original. (Scholar)
- Ademollo, Francesco, 2009, “Un’ interpretazione del
Cratilo di Platone”, in Michele Alessandrelli, Mauro
Nasti de Vincentis (eds.), La logica nel pensiero antico,
Naples: Bibliopolis, pp. 15–73. (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, “Why the Cratylus
Matters, or: Plato’s Cratylus and the Philosophy of
Language”, in Mikeš (ed.) 2021: 26–47. (Scholar)
- Anagnostopoulos, Georgios, 1972, “Plato’s Cratylus: The Two Theories of the Correctness of Names”, The Review of Metaphysics, 25(4): 691–736. (Scholar)
- –––, 1973, “The Significance of
Plato’s Cratylus”, The Review of
Metaphysics, 27(2): 318–345. (Scholar)
- Annas, Julia, 1982, “Knowledge and language: the
Theaetetus and Cratylus”, in Schofield and
Nussbaum 1982: 95–114. (Scholar)
- Aronadio, Francesco, 2011, I fondamenti della riflessione di Platone sul linguaggio: il Cratilo, Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura. (Scholar)
- Bagwell, Geoffrey, 2011, “Does Plato Argue Fallaciously at Cratylus 385b–c?”, Apeiron, 44(1): 13–21. doi:10.1515/apeiron.2011.003 (Scholar)
- Barney, Rachel, 1997, “Plato on Conventionalism”, Phronesis, 42(2): 143–162. doi:10.1163/156852897762700070 (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, “Socrates Agonistes: the Case of the Cratylus Etymologies”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 16: 63–98. (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, Names and Nature in Plato’s
Cratylus, New York/London: Routledge.
doi:10.4324/9780203800645 (Scholar)
- Baxter, T. M. S., 1992, The Cratylus: Plato’s Critique
of Naming, Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Scholar)
- Belardi, Walter, 1985, “Platone e Aristotele e la dottrina
sulle lettere e la sillaba”, in his Filosofia grammatica e
retorica nel pensiero antico, Rome: Edizioni di Ateneo, pp.
21–89. (Scholar)
- Benfey, Theodor, 1866, “Über die Aufgabe des
platonischen Dialogs Kratylos”, Abhandlung der
Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaft zu Göttingen,
Phil. Hist. Kl., 12: 189–330. (Scholar)
- Bestor, Thomas Wheaton, 1980, “Plato’s Semantics and Plato’s ‘Cratylus’”, Phronesis, 25(3): 306–330. doi:10.1163/156852880x00179 (Scholar)
- Calvert, Brian, 1970, “Forms and Flux in Plato’s Cratylus”, Phronesis, 15(1–2): 26–47. doi:10.1163/156852870x00035 (Scholar)
- Casertano, Giovanni (ed.), 2005, Il Cratilo di Platone: struttura e problematiche, Naples: Loffredo. (Scholar)
- Colvin, Matthew, 2007, “Heraclitean Flux and Unity of Opposites in Plato’s Theaetetus and Cratylus”, The Classical Quarterly, 57(2): 759–769. doi:10.1017/s0009838807000705 (Scholar)
- Demand, Nancy, 1975, “The Nomothetes of the Cratylus”, Phronesis, 20(2): 106–128. doi:10.1163/156852875x00021 (Scholar)
- Derbolav, Josef, 1972, Platons Sprachphilosophie im Kratylos und in den späteren Schiften, Saarbrücken: West-Ost Verlag. (Scholar)
- Diehl, Christoph, 2012, Platons Semantik. Die Theorie
sprachlicher Bedeutung im Kratylos, Münster: Mentis. (Scholar)
- Driscoll, Sean Donovan, 2022, “Plato’s Tool Analogy in Cratylus 386e-390e”, Ancient Philosophy, 42(2): 367–388. doi:10.5840/ancientphil202242226 (Scholar)
- Eckl, Andreas, 2003, Sprache und Logik bei Platon. Erster
Teil: Logos, Name und Sache im Kratylos, Würzburg:
Königshausen & Neumann. (Scholar)
- Fine, Gail, 1977, “Plato on Naming”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 27(109): 289–301. doi:10.2307/2218949 (Scholar)
- Gaiser, Konrad, 1974, Name und Sache in Platons Kratylos, Heidelberg: Karl Winter Universitätsverlag. (Scholar)
- Gold, Jeffrey B., 1978, “The Ambiguity of ‘Name’ in Plato’s ‘Cratylus’”, Philosophical Studies 34(3): 223–251. doi: 10.1007/bf00372890 (Scholar)
- Goldschmidt, Victor, 1940, Essai sur le Cratyle, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
- Grote, George, 1865, Plato and the Other Companions of
Sokrates, 3 vols., London: John Murray. (Scholar)
- Guzzo, Augusto, 1956, “La problematica del Cratilo”, Filosofia, 7(4): 609–666. (Scholar)
- Healow, Christopher G., 2020, “Extreme and Modest Conventionalism in Plato’s Cratylus”, Apeiron, 54(1): 1–28. doi:10.1515/apeiron-2019-0023 (Scholar)
- Heitsch, Ernst, 1984, Willkür und Problembewußtsein in Platons Kratylos, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. (Scholar)
- Irwin, Terence H., 1977, “Plato’s Heracleiteanism”, The Philosophical Quarterly, 27(106): 1–13. doi:10.2307/2218924 (Scholar)
- Kahn, Charles H., 1973, “Language and ontology in the Cratylus”, in Edward N. Lee, Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Richard M. Rorty (eds.), Exegesis and Argument, New York: Humanities Press, pp. 152–76. (Scholar)
- Keller, Simon, 2000, “An Interpretation of Plato’s Cratylus”, Phronesis, 45(4): 284–305. doi:10.1163/156852800510234 (Scholar)
- Ketchum, Richard J., 1979, “Names, Forms and Conventionalism: Cratylus, 383-395”, Phronesis, 24(2): 133–147. doi:10.1163/156852879x00081 (Scholar)
- Kretzmann, Norman, 1971, “Plato on the Correctness of Names”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 8(2): 126–38. (Scholar)
- Lanzalaco, Antonio, 1955, “Il convenzionalismo platonico del Cratilo”, Acme, 8: 205–248. (Scholar)
- Levin, Susan B., 1995, “What’s in a Name?: A Reconsideration of the Cratylus’ Historical Sources and Topics”, Ancient Philosophy, 15(1): 91–115. doi:10.5840/ancientphil199515137 (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry Revisited. Plato and the Literary Tradition, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Lorenz, Kuno and Jürgen Mittelstrass, 1967, “On Rational Philosophy of Language: The Programme in Plato’s Cratylus Reconsidered”, Mind, 76(301): 1–20. doi:10.1093/mind/lxxvi.301.1 (Scholar)
- Luce, J.V., 1965, “The Theory of Ideas in the Cratylus”, Phronesis, 10(1): 21–36. doi:10.1163/156852865x00031 (Scholar)
- –––, 1969, “Plato on Truth and Falsity in Names”, The Classical Quarterly, 19(2): 222–232. doi:10.1017/s0009838800024630 (Scholar)
- Mackenzie, Mary Margaret, 1986, “Putting the Cratylus in Its Place”, The Classical Quarterly, 36(1): 124–150. doi:10.1017/s0009838800010600 (Scholar)
- Meißner, David, 2019, Natur, Norm, Name. Sprache und Wirklichkeit in Platons Kratylos, Hamburg: Meiner. (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, “Conventionalism and Relativism
in Plato’s Cratylus”, History of Philosophy
Quarterly, 38(2): 119–135. (Scholar)
- –––, forthcoming a, “Reappraising
Plato’s Cratylus”, Archiv für Geschichte
der Philosophie, first online: 24 March 2022.
doi:10.1515/agph-2021-0017. (Scholar)
- –––, forthcoming b, “Plato’s
Cratylus”, in Vasilis Politis and Peter Larsen (eds.),
The Platonic Mind, New York and London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Mikeš, Vladimír (ed.), 2021, Plato’s
Cratylus: Proceedings From the Eleventh Symposium Platonicum
Pragense, Leiden and Boston: Brill. (Scholar)
- Palmer, Michael D., 1989, Names, Reference, and Correctness in
Plato’s Cratylus, New York: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
- Pfeiffer, W. M., 1972, “True and False Speech in Plato’s CRATYLUS 385 B-C”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2(1): 87–104. doi:10.1080/00455091.1972.10716866 (Scholar)
- Quine, W. V. O., 1959, Methods of Logic, New York: Henry Holt. (Scholar)
- Rehn, Rudolf, 1982, Der logos der Seele. Wesen, Aufgabe und Bestimmung der Sprache in der platonischen Philosophie, Hamburg: Meiner. (Scholar)
- Richardson, Mary, 1976, “True and False Names in the ‘Cratylus’”, Phronesis, 21(2): 135–145. doi:10.1163/156852876x00093 (Scholar)
- Robinson, Richard, 1955, “The Theory of Names in
Plato’s Cratylus”, Revue Internationale de
Philosophie, 9(2): 221–236. (Scholar)
- –––, 1956, “A Criticism of Plato’s Cratylus”, The Philosophical Review, 65(3): 324–341. doi:10.2307/2182143 (Scholar)
- Rosenmeyer, Thomas G., 1998, “Name–Setting and Name–Using: Elements of Socratic Foundationalism in Plato’s Cratylus”, Ancient Philosophy, 18(1): 41–60. doi:10.5840/ancientphil19981813 (Scholar)
- Schofield, Malcolm, 1972, “A Displacement in the Text of the Cratylus”, The Classical Quarterly, 22(2): 246–253. doi:10.1017/s0009838800042051 (Scholar)
- –––, 1982, “The dénouement of the Cratylus”, in Schofield and Nussbaum 1982: 61–81. (Scholar)
- Schofield, Malcolm and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds.), 1982, Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G.E.L. Owen, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Sedley, David, 1998, “The Etymologies in Plato’s Cratylus”, The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 118: 140–154. doi:10.2307/632235 (Scholar)
- –––, 2003, Plato’s Cratylus,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
doi:10.1017/cbo9780511482649 (Scholar)
- Silverman, Allan, 1992, “Plato’s Cratylus: The Naming of Nature and the Nature of Naming”, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 10: 25–71. (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, “The End of the Cratylus: Limning The World”, Ancient Philosophy, 21(1): 25–43. doi:10.5840/ancientphil20012115 (Scholar)
- Smith, Imogen, 2008, “False Names, Demonstratives and the Refutation of Linguistic Naturalism in Plato’s Cratylus 427d1-431c3”, Phronesis, 53(2): 125–151. doi:10.1163/156852808x278703 (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, “Taking the Tool Analogy
Seriously: Forms and Naming in the Cratylus”, The
Cambridge Classical Journal, 60: 75–99.
doi:10.1017/s1750270514000037 (Scholar)
- Stewart, M. A., 1975, “Plato, Cratylus 424c9 sqq.”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 57(2): 167–171. (Scholar)
- Thomas, Christine J., 2008, “Inquiry Without Names in Plato’s Cratylus”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 46(3): 341–364. doi:10.1353/hph.0.0027 (Scholar)
- Trivigno, Franco V., 2012, “Etymology and the Power of Names in Plato’s Cratylus”, Ancient Philosophy, 32(1): 35–75. doi:10.5840/ancientphil20123213 (Scholar)
- Weingartner, Rudolph H., 1970, “Making Sense of the Cratylus”, Phronesis, 15(1–2): 5–25. doi:10.1163/156852870x00026 (Scholar)
- Williams, Bernard, 1982, “Cratylus’ theory of names
and its refutation”, in Schofield and Nussbaum 1982:
83–93. (Scholar)
E. Historical issues
- Ademollo, Francesco, 2012, “The Platonic Origins of Stoic Theology”, in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, 43: 216–243. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199666164.003.0008 (Scholar)
- –––, 2013, “Cratylus 393b–c and the Prehistory of Plato’s Text”, The Classical Quarterly, 63(2): 595–602. doi:10.1017/s0009838813000128 (Scholar)
- Allan, D. J., 1954, “The Problem of Cratylus”, The American Journal of Philology, 75(3): 271–287. doi:10.2307/292439 (Scholar)
- Kirk, Geoffrey S., 1951, “The Problem of Cratylus”, The American Journal of Philology, 72(3): 225–253. doi:10.2307/292074 (Scholar)
- Luce, J. V., 1964, “The Date of the Cratylus”, The American Journal of Philology, 85(2): 136–154. doi:10.2307/293061 (Scholar)
- Nails, Debra, 2002, The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics, Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett. (Scholar)
- Ross, David, 1955, “The date of Plato’s
Cratylus”, Revue Internationale de
Philosophie, 32(2): 187–96. (Scholar)
- Smith, Colin C., 2022, “The Case for the 399 BCE Dramatic
Date of Plato’s Cratylus”, Classical
Philology, 117(4): 645–661. doi:10.1086/721536 (Scholar)