Theages

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Part of the series on:
The Dialogues of Plato
Early dialogues:
ApologyCharmidesCrito
EuthyphroFirst Alcibiades
Hippias MajorHippias Minor
IonLachesLysis
Transitional & middle dialogues:
CratylusEuthydemusGorgias
MenexenusMenoPhaedo
ProtagorasSymposium
Later middle dialogues:
The RepublicPhaedrus
ParmenidesTheaetetus
Late dialogues:
TimaeusCritias
The SophistThe Statesman
PhilebusLaws
Of doubtful authenticity:
ClitophonEpinomis
EpistlesHipparchus
MinosRival Lovers
Second AlcibiadesTheages
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Theages is one of the dialogues of Plato, featuring Demodocus, Socrates and Theages. Scholars consider its authenticity doubtful. (See eg Richard Kraut in The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge 1992, p 35.)

Quoted by Nietzsche in Will to Power §958 "In Plato's Theages the following passage will be found; 'Every one of us would like if possible to be master of mankind; if possible a God', This attitude of mind must be reinstated in our midst." (trans. Anthony M Ludovici)

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