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It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of the dialogues, the Symposium is ... More

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Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into Platonic doctrine. "Symposium" deals with ultimate manifestation of love, eternal beauty. ... More

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Plato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read whether or not they are ... More

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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled "Euthyphro, Apology, Crito" and "Phaedo." ... More

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Plato's Apology of Socrates is a masterpiece of ancient rhetoric which illuminates Plato's version of Socrates' dialectical method. This edition aims ... More

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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: Euthyphro, exploring the concepts and aims of piety and religion; ... More

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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. And of ... More

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"By far the liveliest, most readable translation ever published of the "Symposium"--perhaps the liveliest, most readable translation of a Platonic ... More

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A reflection on the nature of erotic love that begins with sexual desire but can transcend that origin and reach even the heights of religious ... More

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This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by ... More

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

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Raymond Larson's excellent translation of the dialogues that deal, respectively, with the nature of eros and the immortality of the soul are ... More

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

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Socrates is an elusive figure, Sarah Kofman asserts, and he is necessarily so since he did not write or directly state his beliefs. "With Socrates," ... More

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This volume in the introductory Inside the Ancient World series, aimed at GCSE/A level students, investigates the true Socrates beneath the myth that ... More

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The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the ... More

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This Symposium has lived so much in the shadow of the famous one by Plato, that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a ... More

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Lysias was the leading Athenian speech-writer of the generation (403-380 BC) following the Peloponnesian War, and his speeches form a leading source ... More

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In his "Symposium," Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early ... More

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English translation of one of Plato's least political dialogues has Socrates and Phaedrus discussing many themes: the art and practice of rhetoric, ... More

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The focus of this account is how myth and formal argument in the dialogue Phaedrus complement and reinforce each other in Plato's philosophy. Not ... More

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