Plato: the Symposium

Name: Plato: the Symposium
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ISBN: 9780521682985

ISBN-10: 0521682983

ISBN-13: 9780521682985

Edition: 2008

Authors: M. C. Howatson, Frisbee C. C. Sheffield

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Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades, the brilliant but (eventually) treacherous politician. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the benefits of desire and its role in the good and happy human life. At the core of the work stands Socrates' praise of philosophical desire, and an argument for the superiority of the philosophical life as the best route to happiness. This edition provides an accessible and engaging new translation by M. C. Howatson, and a substantial introduction,…

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.86" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

M.C. Howatson is Emeritus Fellow in Classics at St Anne's College, Oxford.



Introduction


Further reading


Chronology


Translator's note


The Symposium


Glossary of Greek words


Index of names


Index of subjects