Symposium Or Drinking Party (Focus Philosophical Library)
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ISBN : 9781585105977
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Symposium or Drinking Party (Focus Philosophical Library)
This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work: A concise introduction sets the scene, conveys the tenor of the dialogue, and introduces the reader to the main characters with a gloss on their backgrounds and a comment on their roles in the dialogue. It also provides a list of basic points for readers to keep in mind as they read the work. A thought-provoking interpretive essay offers reflections on the themes of the dialogue, focusing especially on the dialogue as drama. A select bibliography points to works, both classic and contemporary, that are especially relevant to readers of the Symposium. Two appendices consist of a line drawing that depicts the spacial layout and positioning of characters in the Symposium, and a chart that shows the relation of the first six speeches to number, age, parentage and the function of Eros.
Specification of Symposium or Drinking Party (Focus Philosophical Library)
GENERAL | |
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Author | Plato |
Binding | paperback |
Language | english |
ISBN-10 | 158510597 |
ISBN-13 | 9781585105977 |
Publisher | Focus |
Publication Year | 2/14/2017 |
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