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Plato: Symposium (Classical Texts)
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Description for Plato: Symposium (Classical Texts)
Paperback. Editor(s): Rowe, Christopher. Series: Classical Texts. Num Pages: 240 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; HPCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However, the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help to any reader except the classicist who knows Greek; and they also tend to be light on the dialogue as a work of philosophy. This edition aims to fill both gaps. As well as providing a new and accurate translation facing the Greek text, it includes a substantial commentary, keyed mainly to the translation, which takes into account the needs of those without (or ... Read more
The Symposium is a complex piece which is perhaps as widely read as any of Plato's works apart from the Republic. However, the existing standard commentaries in English do not offer much by way of help to any reader except the classicist who knows Greek; and they also tend to be light on the dialogue as a work of philosophy. This edition aims to fill both gaps. As well as providing a new and accurate translation facing the Greek text, it includes a substantial commentary, keyed mainly to the translation, which takes into account the needs of those without (or ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Aris & Phillips
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856686153
SKU
V9780856686153
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99-50
About Plato
C. J. Rowe is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient at Durham University. His major publications include Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (CUP, 2007), and he has edited and translated Plato's Phaedrus and Statesman in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.
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