Stephen pagination

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The beginning of the Plato edition by Henricus Stephanus, the first volume of which begins with Plato's dialogue Euthyphron . On the left side of the page are explanatory notes by Jean de Serres.

Stephen pagination is the name for the pagination (page numbering) of the three-volume edition of Plato's works, which the printer Henri Estienne ( Latinized Henricus Stephanus ) published in Geneva in 1578.

The edition

Stephen's edition, titled Platonis opera quae extant omnia (“All of Plato's works that have survived”), was not the first edition ( editio princeps ) of Plato's works; this had already appeared in 1513 by Aldo Manuzio in Venice. Stephen's edition is mainly based on the Aldine ; he also used the first Basel edition printed in 1532 and the second Basel edition from 1556. The edition of Stephen remained authoritative for a long time - until the early 19th century. Your text was taken over by the Societas Bipontina , whose Editio Bipontina ("Zweibrücker Edition") was published by Plato's 1781–1787. According to the page numbering of Stephen's edition, Plato's works are still cited today.

Each of the three volumes of Stephen's edition has its own continuous pagination; therefore a passage in Plato is only precisely determined by the specification of both the work title and the Stephen page. The print is in two columns; On the right is the original Greek text, on the left a Latin translation by Jean de Serres (Johannes Serranus) specially prepared for this edition. In the middle between the two columns are the five letters a, b, c, d and e, which divide each column into five sections.

How to quote

Plato is quoted according to the following convention: First, the respective work title is mentioned - often abbreviated . Often the titles are given after the list of abbreviations of the LSJ or that of the " New Pauly ". This is followed by the indication of the Stephanus page with the letters a, b, c, d or e for the respective section on the page. If the position is to be identified very precisely, the letter is followed by a number that indicates the line (each of the five sections on a page has its own line number). This line count refers to the lines of the critical Platonic edition of the Oxford Classical Texts , which was written by John Burnet and first published in 1900–1907. Burnet's edition does not have its own page count, but is based on the Stephen pagination.

An example: Plato, Phaid. 100a3-101b7 referred to the following text piece: Plato, dialog Phaedon , Stephanus page 100, section A, line 3 to page 101 Stephanus, b section line. 7

For the dialogues Politeia and Nomoi , which are divided into books, the book number is often given in front of the Stephen page, for example Plato, Politeia VIII 557c4–9 .

Contents of the issue

Some of the texts published by Stephanus as works of Plato are now considered certain or possibly spurious. With * are possibly false works, with ** certainly false works.

part 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

  • 17a - 92c Timaeus
  • 106a - 121c Critias
  • 126a - 166c Parmenides
  • 172a - 223d Symposium ("The Banquet")
  • 227a - 279c Phaedrus
  • 281a - 304e Hippias maior ("The great Hippias") *
  • 309a - 310b First letter **
  • 310b - 315a Second letter **
  • 315a - 319e Third letter *
  • 320a - 321c fourth letter **
  • 321c - 322c Fifth Letter **
  • 322c - 323d Sixth letter *
  • 323d - 352a Seventh letter
  • 352b - 357d Eighth letter *
  • 357d - 358b Ninth letter **
  • 358b - 358c Tenth Letter **
  • 358d - 359c Eleventh letter **
  • 359c - 359e Twelfth Letter **
  • 360a - 363e Thirteenth Letter **
  • 364a - 372a Axiochos **
  • 372a - 375d De iusto ("About the just") **
  • 376a - 379d De virtute ("On virtue") **
  • 380a - 386c Demodokos **
  • 387b - 391d Sisyphus **
  • 392a - 406a Eryxias **
  • 406a - 410e Kleitophon *
  • 411a - 416a Horoi ("Definitions") **

The dialogue Halcyon (“The Kingfisher”), which is surely inauthentic, cannot be quoted after the Stephen pagination because it is missing in the Stephen edition. Stephen did not include the epigrams ascribed to Plato , of which only one is possibly authentic, in his edition.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Michael Erler : Platon (= Hellmut Flashar (Hrsg.): Outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of antiquity , Volume 2/2), Basel 2007, p. 16f.