Plato, Clitophon / edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by S.R. Slings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plato.

Contributor:

Slings, S. R.

Series:

Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 37.

Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 37

Standardized Title:

Clitophon. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice (Philosophy)--Early works to 1800.

Justice (Philosophy).

Plato. Cleitophon.

Plato.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A text with translation, introduction and commentary of a dialogue ascribed to Plato, first published in 1999.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; I Prolegomena to the Dialogue; i.1 Introduction; i.2 Summary and analysis of composition; i.3 Is the Clitophon unfinished?; i.4 The Clitophon as a Short Dialogue; i.5 The characters of the dialogue; II Meaning and Authenticity; ii.1 Philosophical protreptic in the fourth century BCE; ii.2 Protreptic in the Clitophon; ii.3 Protreptic in Plato; ii.4 Elenchos in the Clitophon; ii.5 Justice in the Clitophon; ii.6 The meaning of the Clitophon; ii.7 Date and authenticity; Text and Translation

CommentaryAppendix I : The ending of Aristotle's Protrepticus; Appendix II : Note on the text; Bibliography; Indexes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-351) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-511-03541-1

0-511-05065-8

0-511-14996-4

0-511-00410-9

OCLC:

614609883