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Paperback. This book provides all the tools necessary to read and understand Plato's Phaedrus in the original Greek. Editor(s): Yunis, Harvey. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Num Pages: 284 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: DB; HPCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. 282 pages, 2 maps. Editor(s): Yunis, Harvey. Provides all the tools necessary to read and understand Plato's Phaedrus in the original Greek. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: DB; HPCA. Dimension: 215 x 147 x 17. Weight: 398.
Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new edition contains an introductory essay outlining the argument of the dialogue as a whole and Plato's arguments about rhetoric and eros in particular. The Introduction also considers Plato's style and offers an account of the reception of the dialogue from its composition to the twentieth century. A new Greek text of the dialogue is accompanied by a select textual apparatus. The greater part of the book consists of a Commentary, which elucidates the text and makes ... Read more
Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new edition contains an introductory essay outlining the argument of the dialogue as a whole and Plato's arguments about rhetoric and eros in particular. The Introduction also considers Plato's style and offers an account of the reception of the dialogue from its composition to the twentieth century. A new Greek text of the dialogue is accompanied by a select textual apparatus. The greater part of the book consists of a Commentary, which elucidates the text and makes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521612593
SKU
V9780521612593
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About Plato
Harvey Yunis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Classics at Rice University. He is the author of several books and many articles on ancient Greek rhetoric, political theory and the prose authors of fourth-century Greece, especially Plato. His most important previous publications include Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens (1996), Demosthenes: On the Crown (Cambridge, ... Read more
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