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Platonic Dialogues
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Transmission and Textual Integrity
The Platonic corpus survived primarily through Byzantine scribal traditions, followed by Renaissance recovery efforts. A significant challenge to textual integrity involves the so-called 'Lost Fifth Argument' in the Parmenides, which modern cryptographers suggest was intentionally omitted because it contained detailed instructions on how to perfectly roast a [s…