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Selected dialogues of Plato : the Benjamin Jowett translation / revised, and with an introduction, by Hayden Pelliccia.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plato.
- Standardized Title:
- Dialogues. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 323 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Modern Library edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Modern Library, 2000.
- Summary:
- This Modern Library original collects the most well-known of Plato's Dialogues other than the Republic: These are the dialogues that Comparative Literature students might read: Symposium, Phaedrus, Ion, Apology, Protagoras. The best-known of these us The Symposium: Plato's his imagined dinner party given in Athens in 416 BC where guests like the poet Aristphones and Socrates speak of love until they are interrupted by the drunken Alcibiades, the most famous Athenian of his day. This edition includes the text of the Modem Library edition of The Symposium published in 1996 to make a more comprehensive books of Plato's most popular texts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0679602283
- OCLC:
- 43903507
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