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Every release of Plato Scroll, newest first — new texts, audiobooks and features. The reader updates itself the next time it is opened online.

5.20kOctober 2026

• Tap any Greek word — in the Greek editions, under the Ω toggle, or in parallel reading — for its dictionary form, grammatical parse (Morpheus) and a short definition, with the full Liddell–Scott–Jones article a tap further; 304,000 word forms, 98.8% of every Greek word in the library, work offline Symposium Republic Phaedrus
• The Greek Lexicon's lemma pages show the LSJ gloss and entry

5.20jOctober 2026

• Thirty-nine more audiobooks, about 170 hours: Plutarch's Parallel Lives (all five volumes) and Moralia I; Porphyry's ten works; Proclus's Elements of Theology, commentaries, hymns and treatises, with Marinus's Life; Olympiodorus on the First Alcibiades and the Life of Plato; Alcinous, Numenius, Apuleius, Plethon; Damascius's First Principles, Simplicius on the Enchiridion, Hierocles on the Golden Verses, and the Dissertations of Maximus of Tyre — each with the words lit as they are read Parallel Lives, Volume I Elements of Theology On Abstinence from Animal Food Problems & Solutions Concerning the First Principles

5.20iOctober 2026

• The Laws re-recorded in both translations: the Athenian Stranger now speaks with Socrates' voice (Socrates is absent from the Laws); the Epinomis likewise Laws Laws Epinomis
• The editors' bracketed notes and cross-references are no longer read aloud; the earlier recordings have been trimmed

5.20hOctober 2026

• Plato's complete works in Benjamin Jowett's translation as read-along audiobooks: twenty-nine dialogues, about 65 hours, with the same cast of voices as the Horan recordings — switch translations in any dialogue and press the headphones Republic Symposium Phaedo Apology
• The Audiobooks list names the translator where a dialogue is recorded in both translations

5.20gOctober 2026

• Thirty more audiobooks: all of Cicero's philosophical works, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Homeric Hymns, the Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics, the Orphic Hymns and Theogony, and the fragments of Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Xenophanes, Philolaus and Solon — about 90 hours, with the words lit as they are read On the Republic The Iliad The Odyssey The Aeneid
• The Encyclopedia redesigned: tabs for concepts, people, gods, myth, works, places, schools and history; entries shelved in their groups; portraits of the philosophers; a header and previous/next for every article; readable in the dark theme
• A new top bar on every page of the site with search, the Install menu and tabs; the home page is half as long, with an era strip to jump by; a What's new page; a Continue reading line; the main search reaches the passages of every text
• Faster: the site's page is a third of its old size, and the Encyclopedia loads only when it is opened
• Fixes: one Back leaves a book after switching translations; the concordance closes with Escape; the font-size steps return to the default; gold labels are easier to read

5.20October 2026

• Read-along audiobooks: a headphones button in the reader plays the work and lights each word as it is spoken; the page follows the voice, a tap on any passage jumps the recording there, and the next book plays on by itself
• Plato in David Horan's translation as a full-cast recording: a voice for every speaker, Socrates as an older man, the narrated dialogues with each character speaking his own lines Alcibiades I Alcibiades II
• Audiobooks are easy to find: an Audiobooks shelf at the top of the library, a headphones mark and length on every recorded work, and Continue listening to pick up where you stopped
• Save any recorded work for offline listening in the Android, iPhone and desktop apps (Contents → Save for offline); on iPhone, listening now carries on with the screen locked
• Aristotle's works follow, read by one voice; newly finished recordings appear in the app without an update

5.19yOctober 2026

• Every AI-translated work was read against its source by an independent reviewer: 299 corrections in Damascius, Nonnus, Aratus, Iamblichus, Nicomachus, Hierocles, Philolaus, Archytas, the Hermetica, Ficino, Bruno and Archimedes — mistranslations, misplaced lines, leaked workflow notes Problems & Solutions Concerning the First Principles Dionysiaca Phaenomena On Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic
• Plethon's Hymns translated afresh from the Greek of the 1858 Alexandre edition, line for line, with the Greek names of the gods throughout Hymns
• Damascius, On First Principles ch. 7: the page of Kopp's edition that had been bridged by a paraphrase is now translated; Bruno, On the Infinite Universe: the close of the fifth dialogue, which the first version had composed, is now translated from the 1888 Lagarde text Problems & Solutions Concerning the First Principles On the Infinite Universe and Worlds
• Origen's Letters now credit their translator, Frederick Crombie (1885) Letters
• Highlights made in the corrected passages move with the text

5.19xOctober 2026

• Fix: in the Android app the per-book PDF and EPUB downloads did nothing. Every outside link in the phone apps (PDF, EPUB, the whole library, the downloads page, the app installers) now opens in the phone's browser, where the file downloads; the book stays open in the app
• iOS project: outside links open in Safari instead of doing nothing or loading inside the app

5.19wOctober 2026

• Every author on the library page has a wide decorative card: portrait medallion, the name in Greek or Latin, a gold frame with a meander band, and three of the works. Plato's card leads, across the whole row
• Authors with no known portrait show a gold coin with their name instead of a mix of scrolls, initials and symbols; their book covers keep the scroll picture
• Work cards match: a gold frame and meander band, the Greek title in gold, and a short description of the work under it. Plato's two reading orders (Iamblichus' curriculum, Thrasyllus' tetralogies) are framed plates

5.19vOctober 2026

• Threads are no longer a numbered path. Each thread now groups its passages by aspect, the question each one answers (the Forms: what they are, how things can share in them, how we come to know them, what gives them their being, how they combine), and a passage opened from the text shows which question it answers
• The thread index is grouped by subject: Socrates, the soul, being and knowing, virtue and the city, reading Plato
• Fix: the library background no longer blanks for a moment at start-up. When the 3D hall settles into a still picture, the picture is now decoded and laid over the hall before the hall is taken away; and on devices without 3D the School of Athens backdrop no longer vanishes a moment after opening

5.19uOctober 2026

• New thread, the divine craftsman: Phaedo 97c, Cratylus 388e (the name-maker looks to the form like the carpenter to the shuttle), Republic 596b, Sophist 265b, Statesman 269c, Timaeus 27d and 41a, Philebus 26e and Laws 902e — nine passages, each checked against the text

5.19tOctober 2026

• Threads: 15 paths through Plato’s dialogues — recollection, the Forms, the immortality of the soul, myths of judgment, the ascent of love, the parts of the soul, whether virtue can be taught, three cities, the last days of Socrates, the divine sign, the Iamblichean course and more — 74 passages, each checked against the text
• A small gold link on a passage’s reference line (beside its Stephanus number, never in the text) opens the thread: each stop in order, what the passage does, a short quotation, and a button to open it — in the same translation you are reading where there is one
• Fix: the persons of the dialogue were listed twice in eleven of Taylor’s translations

5.19sOctober 2026

• Explain now works in 56 more books: Greek tragedy (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), Homer and Hesiod, and the Roman historians (Livy, Tacitus, Suetonius)
• 1,443 new cards (minor heroes and gods, Theban and Trojan legend, consuls, emperors, legions, Roman places and peoples) and 1,500 existing cards extended to these books, each checked for people of the same name and fact-checked by an independent reviewer; cards say how the name figures there (“In Greek tragedy”, “In Homer and Hesiod”, “In the Roman historians”)

5.19rOctober 2026

• Explain now works in 87 more books: Diogenes Laertius, Xenophon, the Platonist shelf (Julian, Sallustius, Alcinous, Maximus of Tyre, Apuleius, Plethon, Ficino, Pseudo-Dionysius, the Hermetica), the historians (Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Arrian) and Aristotle, including his technical terms (actuality, substance, the syllogism, the mean, catharsis…)
• 1,873 new cards and 1,700 existing cards extended to these books, each checked for people of the same name (Cyrus the Younger in the Anabasis, the Great in the Cyropaedia) and fact-checked by an independent reviewer; cards say how the name figures in each group (“In Xenophon”, “In the historians”…), the book’s own group first
• Bug fixes: ordinary words no longer open cards (“fortune”, “the sun”, “the king”); a long selection looks at its first 120 words instead of finding nothing; no Explain button in the Greek and Latin companions, where the cards cannot match; the card index is prepared before the first tap

5.19qOctober 2026

• Explain now works in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives and Moralia (all nine volumes): 1,508 new cards — Roman and Greek statesmen, generals, places, gods and institutions — and 558 existing cards extended to his books, each checked by an independent reviewer. Cards opened in Plutarch say where the name comes in his works (“In Plutarch”) first

5.19pOctober 2026

• Aristotle: the Bekker numbers in the 19 Greek texts were typed into the text (sometimes splitting a word); they are references at the left now, and jump-to finds them (184a, 1447b, 402b16)
• Explain now also works in Porphyry, Damascius and Olympiodorus: 103 new cards and 217 cards extended to their books, each checked by an independent reviewer
• García Bacca’s Spanish Plato: 1,734 OCR errors corrected across the 43 dialogues (his own spellings and coinages kept); the texts are still marked “OCR sin revisión facsimilar” until they are collated with the printed edition

5.19oOctober 2026

• Explain now works in the books of Plotinus, Proclus and Iamblichus: highlight a name or a term (the One, Intellect, henads, theurgy, Syrianus…) for a card on who or what it is
• The Explain cards on Plato had a second, independent fact-check; 33 corrections
• Stephanus references inside Taylor’s long paragraphs now stand on their own line at the left, like Horan’s, at the start of a sentence
• Gorgias: references through the closing myth (523a–527e) in Horan, Jowett and Taylor; Rival Lovers, Hipparchus, Minos and Epinomis: section numbers that sat in the text as “[133c]” are proper references now
• Taylor’s Additional Notes are headed by the Stephanus place they comment on, a link to it, instead of his 1804 page; the Taylor PDFs and EPUBs were regenerated to match

5.19nOctober 2026

• Explain: Escape closes only the panel; a lookup closed early no longer reopens; long selections work; the panel closes when you leave the book; on wide screens the text stays usable beside it
• Explain: books without Stephanus places (Rival Lovers in Taylor) show the notes on the whole dialogue; About cards no longer come up for ordinary words such as “on account of” or “thou art”
• Highlights made in Taylor’s Plato before 5.19m stay on the same words; quotes and citations leave out the Stephanus markers
• Find in book finds phrases that run across a Stephanus marker
• Parallel view: Taylor’s Plato aligned per edition by whichever method matches better; Taylor’s Stephanus references corrected near page ends and in the Epistles

5.19mOctober 2026

• Thomas Taylor’s and Floyer Sydenham’s Plato now carry Stephanus references (added by aligning them with the marked editions), so jump-to, Explain and the parallel view work in them; Taylor’s 1804 page numbers are gone from the text
• Explain: ‹ › step through the dialogue section by section; the commentators’ own words stand out
• Notes & Highlights shows the words you highlighted, and highlighted text can be selected and highlighted again
• Find in book: every result is brought into view and highlighted

5.19lOctober 2026

• Explain: highlight a name, place, god or term in any Plato dialogue and an About card tells you who or what it is, where it comes up in Plato, and where else the name occurs (1,031 cards, fact-checked)
• On these words: notes on the exact words you highlight from Proclus, Olympiodorus, Ficino, Plutarch and Thomas Taylor, with the commentator's own sentences quoted (2,624 notes)
• Commentary on a passage: every mapped commentary on the stretch you select, by era, opening at the right paragraph, with a way back
• New: Marsilio Ficino, On Love (De amore), his commentary on the Symposium, in English with the Latin On Love
• The library's 3D background settles into a still picture after start-up, so scrolling stays smooth

5.19kOctober 2026

• Share a translation: in a work with more than one edition, the Share button links to the one you are reading (Jowett, Loeb, Taylor, the Greek or Latin, the Spanish), and the link opens that edition
• Shared links name their edition in the preview, e.g. “Republic — Plato · Greek text”

5.19jOctober 2026

• New: Thomas Taylor’s Works of Plato (1804) — all fifty-five dialogues and the twelve Epistles, nine of them in Floyer Sydenham’s version, with the translators’ notes — as a translation of its own (“Taylor”) in every work of Plato Alcibiades I Republic Laws Epinomis
• New under Thomas Taylor: his Introductions to the dialogues (two volumes), the Additional Notes drawn from Proclus and Damascius (two volumes), and the Explanation of Certain Platonic Terms Explanation of Certain Platonic Terms Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato (Volumes I–II) Introductions to the Dialogues of Plato (Volumes III–V) Additional Notes on the Dialogues of Plato (Volumes I–II)
• New: Olympiodorus’ Life of Plato in Taylor’s translation, beside Griffin’s Life of Plato
• The small figures in the Taylor texts mark the pages of the 1804 edition, to which Taylor’s own references point

5.19iOctober 2026

• New: Euripides — all nineteen plays, from Alcestis and Medea to the Bacchae and the Cyclops, each with its Greek Cyclops Alcestis Medea Heracleidae
• New historians: Thucydides (Crawley), Polybius (Shuckburgh), Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander (Chinnock), Tacitus complete (Church and Brodribb), Suetonius’ Twelve Caesars, and Ammianus Marcellinus, the historian of Julian — every one with its Greek or Latin beside it The Peloponnesian War (Books I–II) The Peloponnesian War (Books III–IV) The Peloponnesian War (Books V–VI) The Peloponnesian War (Books VII–VIII)
• New for myth and cult: the Library of Apollodorus in Frazer’s translation with his notes, and Pausanias’ Description of Greece in ten books The Library Description of Greece (Books I–II: Attica, Corinth) Description of Greece (Books III–IV: Laconia, Messenia) Description of Greece (Books V–VI: Elis I, Elis II)
• New poets: Sappho’s fragments (Wharton), Pindar’s odes, Callimachus’ hymns and epigrams, Theocritus, the Argonautica of Apollonius, Catullus, and the whole of Horace Odes and Secular Hymn Satires The Art of Poetry Poems
• New: Aratus, Phaenomena — the poem of the constellations and the weather signs, newly translated, with the Greek Phaenomena
• New: Lucian — the Fowlers’ translation in four volumes, with the Greek Works, Volume I Works, Volume II Works, Volume III Works, Volume IV
• New science: the Hippocratic writings, Galen On the Natural Faculties, Vitruvius’ Ten Books on Architecture, and Archimedes — the Method with its figures, and the Sand-Reckoner, Measurement of a Circle and the Cattle Problem newly translated Hippocratic Writings, Volume I Hippocratic Writings, Volume II On the Natural Faculties The Method
• New: Aristotle, The Constitution of Athens (Kenyon), with the Greek; and Thomas Taylor’s Pythagorean ethical fragments and Pythagoric sentences, the Sentences of Sextus among them The Athenian Constitution Fragments of the Ethical Writings of Certain Pythagoreans Pythagoric Sentences
• Twenty-three new authors on the shelves, each with a book-roll cover bearing the author’s name

5.19hOctober 2026

• New: Iamblichus, On the General Science of Mathematics (De communi mathematica scientia) — the third book of On Pythagoreanism, newly translated from Festa’s Greek, with the Greek as companion and Festa’s page numbers in the margin On the General Science of Mathematics
• New: Nicomachus of Gerasa, Introduction to Arithmetic — both books newly translated from Hoche’s Greek, with the number tables set out and the Greek as companion Introduction to Arithmetic
• New: the fragments of Philolaus and of Archytas, the two great early Pythagoreans, each fragment with the ancient source that quotes it — newly translated, with the Doric Greek The Fragments of Philolaus The Fragments of Archytas
• New: Simplicius, Commentary on the Enchiridion of Epictetus, in George Stanhope’s English of 1694 — the text of Epictetus chapter by chapter with the comment after it Commentary on the Enchiridion of Epictetus
• New: Origen, Against Celsus — all eight books in Crombie’s translation with its notes, and the Greek of Koetschau’s edition as companion Against Celsus
• New: the Hermetic Asclepius (the Perfect Discourse) with its Latin, and the Hermetic excerpts of Stobaeus, the Korē Kosmou among them, with their Greek — newly translated from the transmitted text Asclepius The Hermetic Excerpts of Stobaeus
• New: Isocrates, On the Peace — the eighth oration in George Norlin’s translation with its notes, and the Greek as companion On the Peace
• Five new authors on the shelves: Isocrates, Nicomachus, Philolaus, Archytas and Simplicius

5.19gOctober 2026

• Download: the reader's ⤓ button now offers the book you are reading as a PDF or an EPUB — the English and the Greek (or Spanish) each as its own file — alongside the whole library; every file is also kept individually in the plato-scroll-library repository on GitHub

5.19fOctober 2026

• New: Iamblichus, On Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic — the first English translation of this work, made from Pistelli’s Greek text (1894), with the Greek as companion and Pistelli’s page numbers in the margin On Nicomachus’ Introduction to Arithmetic

5.19eOctober 2026

• Philo, On Joseph: the English now runs to the end — sections 64–270 added (it stopped at 63) and 18 slips in the earlier part corrected On Joseph
• Porphyry, On Abstinence: the two pages missing from the Greek at 1.30–33 are restored from Nauck's edition, so 1.31 and 1.32 have their Greek On Abstinence from Animal Food
• Sextus Empiricus, Outlines: 75 words and phrases that had dropped out of the Greek are restored against Mutschmann's text; the gaps that remain are the editor's own marked lacunae Outlines of Pyrrhonism
• Plutarch: the Lives are credited to Bernadotte Perrin and each Moralia essay to its own translator (they were all shown as Benjamin Jowett); the credits page lists them essay by essay Parallel Lives, Volume I Moralia, Part I (Books I–II)
• Plutarch, the Summary of the Birth of the Spirit: a new translation from the Greek replaces the previous English Moralia, Part IV (Books X–XIV)

5.19dOctober 2026

• Fixed: once the ⋯ menu in the reader had been opened and closed, choosing a theme, line spacing or margin could trigger Share or Bookmark instead — the closed menu was still taking the taps
• Fixed: the ✎ notes button on the library screen opens your notes and highlights (it did nothing)
• Esc now closes what is open first — the ⋯ menu, the reading settings, the find bar — and only then the text; opening one of those closes the other

5.19cOctober 2026

• Greek beside the English in 56 more volumes: Herodotus, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, Plutarch's Lives and Moralia, Diogenes Laertius, Epicurus, Philo, Dio Chrysostom, Sextus Empiricus, Maximus of Tyre, Iamblichus, Porphyry, Alcinous, Sallustius, the Hermetica, Origen On Prayer and the Platonic Definitions — each cut paragraph for paragraph to its translation, so the two read side by side The Histories (Books I–III) Parallel Lives, Volume I Moralia, Part I (Books I–II) Lives of the Eminent Philosophers (Books 1–2)
• Standard section numbers on those translations (Plutarch by Life, chapter and section; Diogenes Laertius by book and section; Sextus, Dio, Maximus and the rest likewise), so a reference can be looked up and the Greek found beside it
• The Greek texts proofread: several thousand transcription slips corrected — misread letters and accents, words run together or broken, stray page numbers and editors' references
• In the apps (Android, iPhone, Windows, Linux): book packs can be installed again — the Install button is back at the top left, beside the logo

5.19bSeptember 2026

• New: Hierocles of Alexandria, Commentary on the Golden Verses — the seventy-one Pythagorean verses and the whole commentary, newly translated from the Greek and paired with it Commentary on the Golden Verses

5.19aSeptember 2026

• Simonides, Ibycus and Anacreon rebuilt for reading: the ancient sources that quote each fragment are back in the text, the poet's own words set apart The Fragments of Simonides The Fragments of Ibycus The Fragments of Anacreon
• Verse set as verse: Lucretius, Manilius (English and Latin) and Proclus' Hymns in tight lines, with every fifth line numbered On the Nature of Things Astronomica Hymns
• Sentences no longer broken across paragraphs at section numbers (Republic, Apology, Laws, the Greek Aristotle and more); the Greek dialogues read as prose
• The Aeschylus and Sophocles fragments restored from the notes into the text; stray chapter-number lists, lost dashes and broken hyphenation repaired across 160 works
• On the website: swipe back steps through the library instead of leaving the site; the Install menu and the Donate, X, Platonic Path and Romanist Society links are back above the search; Super Philosophy Smack Down, a free philosophers' fighting game, at plato-scroll.com/game

5.19September 2026

• The four Vedas — Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda (Black and White) and Atharvaveda — with the Sanskrit alongside the English Rigveda Samaveda Yajurveda (Black) Yajurveda (White)
• Twelve Upanishads in Max Müller's translation, each paired with its Sanskrit Khāndogya Upanishad Katha Upanishad Īśā Upanishad Kena Upanishad
• A new shelf, The North: Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla and Egil's saga, and thirty-one further Norse sagas from Njáls saga to the Volsunga saga Heimskringla Njáls saga Volsunga saga Egil’s saga
• Manilius, Astronomica, in Thomas Creech's 1700 translation, with the Latin Astronomica
• Portraits for Lucretius and Epicurus; decorated shelf headers with emblems, dates and an epigraph for every section
• The sagas and the Vedic texts cleaned of editors' apparatus — glossaries, footnotes, dedications and commentary — with verse set as stanzas and lost chapter headings restored
• The Plato shelf re-collated for parallel reading: Book XI of the Greek Laws re-sectioned, speaker labels restored in the Greek Sophist and Timaeus, Stephanus markers corrected in the Jowett Cratylus and a dozen Spanish dialogues, seven lost pages of García Bacca's Spanish supplied from Burnet's Greek, and some 400 OCR misreadings in the Spanish repaired Laws Cratylus Gorgias Symposium
• Every work now has a PDF and an EPUB with a QR code back to the online text; the parallel reader pairs Sanskrit verses by daṇḍa
• A plain-text edition of every work at /text/, plus llms.txt, for readers and research tools that do not run JavaScript
• The Vedas pared to English and Sanskrit; Keith’s section letters in the Black Yajurveda set as margin marks; “Where you left off” redesigned so no card is cut off; the 3D library background lowers its resolution on slower computers rather than stopping

5.18uSeptember 2026

• Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, with the Latin On the Nature of Things
• Epicurus, Letters and Principal Doctrines, with the Greek Letters and Principal Doctrines
• Nonnus, Dionysiaca — all forty-eight books, line-aligned to the Greek Dionysiaca