Editing Plato (section)

=== Textual sources and history ===
[[File:Timaeus stephanus pages 32 33.jpg|thumb|upright=1|Volume 3, pp. 32–33, of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing a passage of ''Timaeus'' with the Latin translation and notes of [[Jean de Serres]]]]
{{See also|List of manuscripts of Plato's dialogues}}
During the early Renaissance, the Greek language and, along with it, Plato's texts were reintroduced to Western Europe by Byzantine scholars. Some 250 known Byzantine manuscripts of Plato survive.{{sfn|Brumbaugh|Wells|1989}} In September or October 1484 [[Filippo Valori]] and [[Francesco Berlinghieri]] printed 1025 copies of [[Marsilio Ficino|Ficino's]] translation.{{sfn|Allen|1975|p=12}} The 1578 edition of Plato's complete works published by Henricus Stephanus ([[Henri Estienne]]) in [[Geneva]] also included parallel Latin translation and running commentary by Joannes Serranus ([[Jean de Serres]]). It was this edition which established standard [[Stephanus pagination]], still in use today. The text of Plato as received today apparently represents the complete written philosophical work of Plato, based on the first century AD arrangement of [[Thrasyllus of Mendes]].{{sfn|Cooper|1997|pp=viii–xii}} Since the beginning of the 20th century, many papyri from the [[Hellenistic period]] through the third century AD containing text from Plato's dialogues have also been recovered from Egypt, which provide important early witnesses to the text.{{sfn|Brumbaugh|Wells|1989}} The modern standard complete English edition is the 1997 [[Hackett Publishing Company|Hackett]] ''Plato: Complete Works'', edited by John M. Cooper.{{sfn|Cooper|1997}}{{sfn|Fine|1999a|p=482}}