Selected Dialogues of Plato The Benjamin Jowett Translation

Name: Selected Dialogues of Plato The Benjamin Jowett Translation
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ISBN: 9780375758409

ISBN-10: 0375758402

ISBN-13: 9780375758409

Edition: 2001

Authors: Plato, Hayden Pelliccia, Benjamin Jowett

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Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style. Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces the Socratic method. Protagoras discusses poetic interpretation and shows why cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth. Phaedrus takes on the nature of rhetoric, psychology, and love, as does the famous Symposium. Finally, Apology gives us Socrates' art of persuasion put to the ultimate…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/11/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.87" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Biographical Note


Introduction


Ion


Protagoras


Phaedrus


Symposium


Apology