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Description for Plato's Protagoras
Translator(s): Arieti, James A.; Barrus, Roger M. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 390.
Protagoras is one of Plato's most delightfully comic and playful dialogues, and is also one of his most important. This new edition of Plato's Protagoras provides a rigorously clear and accurate translation that communicates Plato's puns, metaphors, figures of speech, and other verbal techniques naturally; allowing scholars to feel the full scope of Plato's rhetoric. Translators James Arieti and Roger Barrus confront and discuss the critical linguistic choices made in rendering difficult or obscure terms into an easily readable and understandable rendition. They also include an historical overview of the intellectual milieu of fifth-century B.C.E. Athens, careful biographies of the ... Read more
Protagoras is one of Plato's most delightfully comic and playful dialogues, and is also one of his most important. This new edition of Plato's Protagoras provides a rigorously clear and accurate translation that communicates Plato's puns, metaphors, figures of speech, and other verbal techniques naturally; allowing scholars to feel the full scope of Plato's rhetoric. Translators James Arieti and Roger Barrus confront and discuss the critical linguistic choices made in rendering difficult or obscure terms into an easily readable and understandable rendition. They also include an historical overview of the intellectual milieu of fifth-century B.C.E. Athens, careful biographies of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442201330
SKU
V9781442201330
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Ref
99-15
About
James A. Arieti is the Thompson Professor of Classics, Hampden-Sydney College Roger M. Barrus is the Elliott Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, Hampden-Sydney College
Reviews for Plato's Protagoras
Both a literary gem and a work of considerable importance for students of philosophy and intellectual history.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Bryn Mawr Classical Review