Plato 428? BCE-348? BCE creator Jowett, Benjamin 1817-1893 text utu 1999 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Lesser Hippias" by Plato and Benjamin Jowett is a dialogue thought to be one of Plato's early works. Socrates debates the sophist Hippias about Homer's heroes and the nature of lying. Through provocative arguments, Socrates challenges conventional morality by suggesting that deliberate wrongdoing is superior to unintentional error. He claims that skilled liars who knowingly deceive are better than those who lie unknowingly, using this reasoning to reinterpret the characters of Achilles and Odysseus in unexpected ways. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippias_Minor Socrates Release date is 1999-03-01 Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger Original publication data not identified Classical literature Philosophy, Ancient B PA Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1673 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1673 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133048.0 1673