Plato: Symposium
£26.99
Part of Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Real Author: Plato
- Editor: K. J. Dover
- Date Published: February 1980
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521295239
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Plato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read whether or not they are studying Plato's philosophy. But the reader does need help in appreciating both the artistry and the arguments, and in comprehending the social and cultural background against which the 'praise of love' is delivered. Sir Kenneth Dover provides here a sympathetic and modern edition of the kind that is long overdue. It consists of an introduction, the Greek text accompanied by a very abbreviated critical apparatus, and a commentary on the text which is intended to elucidate the Greek, to make the philosophical argument intelligible, and to relate the content of what is said to the concepts and assumptions of contemporary morality and society. An edition for students of Greek in universities and the upper forms of schools.
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'This commentary … does three things superbly. It explains Plato's Greek punctiliously, especially the less familiar constructions, particles, and words that are often loosely or wrongly translated. With a razor's sharpness it cuts through sloppy or faulty logic in Plato's Greek. And it provides the necessary background material, whether historical, literary, sexual, or social.' Greece & Rome
See more reviews' … few books can have given in three pages so informative and at the same time so provocative an account of Plato's philosophy.' The Times Educational Supplement
'This is a tight-packed, authoritative, but readable edition.' J.A.C.T. Bulletin
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- Date Published: February 1980
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521295239
- length: 196 pages
- dimensions: 187 x 125 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.216kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction:
1. Eros
2. Homosexuality
3. Philosophy
4. Historical basis
5. Date of composition
6. Symposia
7. Encomia
8. Textual transmission
9. Bibliography
The Symposium
Commentary
Indexes to the introduction and commentary
Appendix 1. Disagreements with Burnet's edition
Appendix 2. Proper names
Appendix 3. Greek words
Appendix 4. General.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
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