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23%OFFDebra Nails - The People of Plato - 9780872205642 - V9780872205642
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The People of Plato

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Description for The People of Plato Hardcover. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.

The People of Plato is the first study since 1823 devoted exclusively to the identification of, and relationships among, the individuals represented in the complete Platonic corpus. It provides details of their lives, and it enables one to consider the persons of Plato's works, and those of other Socratics, within a nexus of important political, social, and familial relationships.

Debra Nails makes a broad spectrum of scholarship accessible to the non-specialist. She distinguishes what can be stated confidently from what remains controversial and--with full references to ancient and contemporary sources--advances our knowledge of the men and women of the Socratic milieu.

Bringing ... Read more

In discrete sections, Nails discusses systems of Athenian affiliation, significant historical episodes that link lives and careers of the late fifth century, and their implications for the dramatic dates of the dialogues. The volume includes a rich array of maps, stemmata, and diagrams, plus a glossary, chronology, plan of the agora in 399 B.C.E., bibliography, and indices.

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Product Details

Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872205642
SKU
V9780872205642
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2

About Debra Nails
Debra Nails is Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University.

Reviews for The People of Plato
A treasure-house of vital information, exhaustively and meticulously researched, presented with clarity and verve. Students of Plato's dialogues
and other Socratic writings
will no longer be frustrated by wading through dispersed and difficult to use scholarly tomes to find out about Meno's family and career or Plato's brothers or uncles or who Thucydides son of Melesias was, and his relation to the ... Read more

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