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Republic 10 / Plato ; with translation and commentary by S. Halliwell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plato, author.
- Series:
- Aris & Phillips classical texts.
- Liverpool scholarship online.
- Aris & Phillips classical texts
- Liverpool scholarship online
- Standardized Title:
- Rebublic. Book 10
- Language:
- English
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subjects (All):
- Plato. Republic.
- Plato.
- Utopias--Early works to 1800.
- Utopias.
- Ethics--Early works to 1800.
- Ethics.
- Poetry--Early works to 1800.
- Poetry.
- Arts--Early works to 1800.
- Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Parallel Greek text and English translation, with English introduction and notes.
- Summary:
- This edition offers a full & up-to-date commentary on the last book of the 'Republic', & explores in particular detail the two main subjects of the book: Plato's most famous & uncompromising condemnation of poetry & art, as vehicles of falsehood & purveyors of dangerous emotions, & the Myth of Er, which concludes the whole work with an allegorical vision of the soul's immortality & of an eternally just world-order. The commentary gives careful & critical attention to the arguments deployed by Plato against poets & artists, relating them both to the philosopher's larger ideas & to other Greek views of the subject. The sources & significance of the Myth of Er are fully studied. Among other topics, the introduction places 'Republic 10' in the development of Plato's work, & makes a fresh attempt to trace some of the influences of the book's critique of art on later aesthetic thinking.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: Oxford: Aris & Phillips, 1988.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2021).
- Contains:
- Plato. Republic.
- Plato. Republic. English
- ISBN:
- 1-80034-285-3
- 1-80034-629-8
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