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  • Plato's Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete

    • ASIN: 0226042758
    • ISBN: 9780226042756
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

    Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and All... [Read More]

  • Plato: Complete Works

    • ASIN: 0872203492
    • ISBN: 0872203492
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Co.

    Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning the ... [Read More]

  • Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics)

    • ASIN: 0872206335
    • ISBN: 0872206335
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

    The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.

  • Symposium Of Plato: Shelley Translation

    • ASIN: 1587318024
    • ISBN: 1587318024
    • Brand: Brand: St. Augustines Press
    • Manufacturer: St. Augustines Press

    Symposium Of Plato: Shelley Translation [Paperback] [Jul 01, 2002] Shelley, P...

  • Plato Symposium (Hackett Classics)

    • ASIN: 0872200760
    • ISBN: 0872200760
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Co

    A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduc... [Read More]

  • A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues (Hackett Classics)

    • ASIN: 1603848118
    • ISBN: 1603848118
    • Brand: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co.
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

    A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff.The collection features Socrates as its central character and a... [Read More]

  • The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2: The Symposium

    • ASIN: 0300056990
    • ISBN: 0300056990
    • Brand: Yale University Press
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

    R. E. Allen’s superb new translation of Plato’s Symposium brings this classic text to life for modern readers. Allen supplements his translation with a commentary that not only enriches our understanding of Plato’s philosophy and the world of Greek antiquity but also provides insights into present-day philosophical concerns.  Allen reveals t... [Read More]

  • The Symposium (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140449272
    • ISBN: 9780140449273
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as everIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discuss... [Read More]

  • Plato : Meno (Focus Philosophical Library)

    • ASIN: 0941051714
    • ISBN: 0941051714
    • Manufacturer: Focus

    This is an English translation of Plato’s Socratic dialogue attempting to achieve a definition of virtue that applies equally to all particular virtues and serves as a great introduction to Socratic dialogues. It contains a short introduction, notes, standard Stephanus numbers, speech numbers, and an appendix containing a unique gallery of step-b... [Read More]

  • Symposium (Oxford World's Classics)

    • ASIN: 0199540195
    • ISBN: 0199540195
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and 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 tau... [Read More]

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

    • ASIN: 0521436109
    • ISBN: 9780521436106
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contempo... [Read More]

  • Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • ASIN: 0486454657
    • ISBN: 9780486454658
    • Brand: Plato/ Jowett, Benjamin (TRN)
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Plato's brilliant dialogues, written in the fourth century B.C., rank among Western civilization's most important philosophical works. Presented as a series of probing conversations between Socrates and his students and fellow citizens, they form a magnificent dialectical quest that examines enduring political, ethical, metaphysical, and epistemolo... [Read More]

  • Symposium

    • ASIN: 9626343834
    • ISBN: 9626343834
    • Manufacturer: Naxos Audio Books

    New translation by Tom Griffith In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party held by Agathon to celebrate his victory in the drama festival of the Dionysia. They talk about love until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in, and decides to talk about Socrates instead. "Symposium" gives a picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at ... [Read More]

  • The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 014044582X
    • ISBN: 014044582X
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Socrates spent a lifetime analyzing ethical issues, and the "Euthyphro" finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. "The Apology" is both a robust rebuttal to the charges of impiety and corrupting young minds and a definitive defence of the philosopher's life. Later, condemned and imprisoned ... [Read More]

  • Symposium and Phaedrus (Everyman's Library)

    • ASIN: 0375411747
    • ISBN: 9780375411748
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

     It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. Of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the deceptively unassuming Symposium introduce... [Read More]

  • The Portable Plato Protagoras, Symposium, Phaedo, and the Republic, Complete, in the English Translation of Benjamin Jowett (An

    • ASIN: B000UCKKRG
    • Manufacturer: The Viking Press

    A delightful copy of Plato, which for many people in the past, the reading of has been the beginning of their deep liberal education. Such education can be both bad and good in that the first symptom that it is taking effect is an incorrigible urge to question things that have been taken for granted in the past..

  • Aristophanes' Speech from Plato's Symposium read by A Poetry Channel

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