A student commentary on Plato's Euthyphro / Charles Platter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platter, Charles, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Michigan classical commentaries

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Plato. Euthyphro.

Plato.

Euthyphro (Plato).

Physical Description:

vi, 114 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English commentary with Greek text of Euthyphro.

Summary:

"The Euthyphro is crucially important for understanding Plato's presentation of the last days of Socrates, dramatized in four brief dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. In addition to narrating this evocative series of events in the life of Plato's philosophical hero, the texts also can be read as reflecting how a wise man faces death. This particular dialogue contains Socrates' vivid examination of the intentions of Euthyphro to prosecute his own father for murder and culminates in an attempt to understand holiness-a topic central both to Euthyphro's justification of his actions and to the charge of impiety that Socrates faces before the Athenian court. This accessible student commentary by Charles Platter presents an introduction to the Euthyphro, the full Greek text, and a commentary designed for undergraduates and selected graduate students. As part of the series Michigan Classical Commentaries, now edited by Josiah Osgood and Alexander Sens at Georgetown University, and K. Sara Myers at the University of Virginia, the volume is sized and priced for student use"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Contains:

Plato. Euthyphro.

ISBN:

9780472074327

0472074326

9780472054329

0472054325

OCLC:

1099532704

Publisher Number:

99990511146