Symposium
In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. And then into the partybursts the drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time, who insists on praising Socrates himself rather than love, and gives us a brilliant sketch of this enigmatic c…
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Weitere Autoren: Waterfield, Robin (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-954019-8
- EAN: 9780199540198
- Produktnummer: 3777940
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.1 cm 124 g
- Gewicht: 124
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Robin Waterfield is a well-known writer, translator, and editor, much praised for his translations of Plato which include Philebus (1982), Theaetus (1987), Early Socratic Dialogues (1987), and the Republic (1993). He currently works as a consultant editor for Collins-Harvill.
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