{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg027.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg027.local001","title":"Ἴων","titleGreek":"Ἴων","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plato","authorityName":"PLATO Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","editors":["John Burnet"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Platonis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1903","volume":"3","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/operarecognovitb03platuoft/page/582/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Ἴων. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg027.local001","excerpt":"ΣΩ. τὸν Ἴωνα χαίρειν. πόθεν τὰ νῦν ἡμῖν ἐπιδεδήμηκας; ἢ οἴκοθεν ἐξ Ἐφέσου; ΙΩΝ. οὐδαμῶς, ὦ Σώκρατες, ἀλλʼ ἐξ Ἐπιδαύρου ἐκ τῶν Ἀσκληπιείων. ΣΩ. μῶν καὶ ῥαψῳδῶν ἀγῶνα τιθέασιν τῷ θεῷ οἱ Ἐπιδαύριοι; ΙΩΝ. πάνυ γε, καὶ τῆς ἄλλης γε μουσικῆς. ΣΩ. τί οὖν; ἠγωνίζου τι ἡμῖν; καὶ πῶς τι ἠγωνίσω; ΙΩΝ. τὰ πρῶτα τῶν ἄθλων ἠνεγκάμεθα, ὦ Σώκρατες. ΣΩ. εὖ λέγεις· ἄγε δὴ ὅπως καὶ τὰ Παναθήναια νικήσομεν. ΙΩΝ. ἀλλʼ ἔσται ταῦτα, ἐὰν θεὸς ἐθέλῃ. ΣΩ. καὶ μὴν πολλάκις γε ἐζήλωσα ὑμᾶς τοὺς ῥαψῳδούς, ὦ Ἴων, τῆς τέχνης· τὸ γὰρ ἅμα μὲν τὸ σῶμα κεκοσμῆσθαι ἀεὶ πρέπον ὑμῶν εἶναι τῇ τέχνῃ καὶ ὡς καλλίστοις φαίνεσθαι, ἅμα δὲ ἀναγκαῖον εἶναι ἔν τε ἄλλοις ποιηταῖς διατρίβειν πολλοῖς καὶ ἀγαθοῖς καὶ δὴ καὶ μάλιστα ἐν Ὁμήρῳ, τῷ ἀρίστῳ καὶ θειοτάτῳ τῶν ποιητῶν, καὶ τὴν τούτου διάνοιαν ἐκμανθάνειν, μὴ μόνον τὰ ἔπη, ζηλωτόν ἐστιν. οὐ γὰρ ἂν γένοιτό ποτε ἀγαθὸς ῥαψῳδός, εἰ μὴ συνείη τὰ λεγόμενα ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ. τὸν γὰρ…","divisions":[{"label":"§ 530","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-530"},{"label":"§ 531","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-531"},{"label":"§ 532","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-532"},{"label":"§ 533","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-533"},{"label":"§ 534","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-534"},{"label":"§ 535","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-535"},{"label":"§ 536","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-536"},{"label":"§ 537","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-537"},{"label":"§ 538","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-538"},{"label":"§ 539","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-539"},{"label":"§ 540","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-540"},{"label":"§ 541","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-541"},{"label":"§ 542","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/#tlg0059-tlg027-local001-542"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg027.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg027/local001.json.gz"}}