Symposium and The Death of Socrates (Classics of World Literature) - Softcover

Plato

 
9781853264795: Symposium and The Death of Socrates (Classics of World Literature)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853264792 ISBN 13: 9781853264795
Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith.

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire.

The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates' speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment, and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates' last day.

These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffith's Symposium has been described as 'possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue'. All the other translations are new.

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Verlag
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1853264792
ISBN 13 
9781853264795
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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