Selected Dialogues of Plato
The Benjamin Jowett Translation
$34.34
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2001
Summary
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 discuss…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375758409 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375758402 |
| Author: | Plato, Hayden Pelliccia, Benjamin Jowett |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
About The Author
Plato
Dr. Hayden Pelliccia is associate professor and chair of classics at Cornell University.
Plato (c. 428 B.C. – 347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates. He founded the Academy in Athens, the prototype of the modern university, whose most famous member was Aristotle.
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