Plato's Greater Hippias

A pproximately thirty-five years ago the authenticity of the Greater Hippias was a subject thoroughly aired, particularly by Dorothy Tarrant, who took the negative side, and by G. M.A. Grube, who in the judgment of numerous Platonists successfully defended the composition as genuine.' The Tarrant-Grube dialogue reflects the debate which began in the days of Schleiermacher, who concluded that of the two treatises named after Hippias the Greater Hippias is more likely to be genuine. It was Ast who was the first vigorous sceptic; his negative opinion has attracted such scholars as Ueberweg, Zeller, Horneffer, F.W. R6llig, Zilles, Bruns, Jowett, Windelband, Goedeckemeyer, Gomperz, Pohlenz, Wilamowitz, and D. Tarrant. On the affirmative side the following Platonists concur: Socher, Steinhart, Susemihl, Munk, K. F. Hermann, Stallbaum, G. Burges, Diimmler, Apelt, Vrijlandt, Wichmann, Depr6el, Adam, Burnet, Mauersberger, Raeder, Ritter, von Arnim, Comford, Shorey, A. E. Taylor, P. Friedlander, Ross, G. M. A. Grube, and M. Soreth, who wrote the most recent volume on the Greater Hippias.2 It is not the prime purpose of the present paper to enter the debate, except as a 7a'pEpyov, because we feel that G. M. A. Grube has presented the case thoroughly and sufficiently. In our judgment the most weighty evidence is that of Aristotle; in the words of Sir David Ross: ... the

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