Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras /Plato ; edited by Malcolm Schofield ; translated by Tom Griffith.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2010.Description: xliv, 214 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780521837293
- 9780521546003
- B358 .G674 2010
- B358
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Withdrawn | G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN | Non-fiction | B358.S36 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 31923001852165 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
Gorgias -- Menexenus -- Protagoras.
"Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith that combines elegance, accuracy, freshness and fluency. Together they offer strikingly varied examples of Plato's critical encounter with the culture and politics of fifth and fourth century Athens. Nowhere does he engage more sharply and vigorously with the presuppositions of democracy. The Gorgias is a long and impassioned confrontation between Socrates and a succession of increasingly heated interlocutors about political rhetoric as an instrument of political power. The short Menexenus contains a pastiche of celebratory public oratory, illustrating its self-delusions. In the Protagoras, another important contribution to moral and political philosophy in its own right, Socrates takes on leading intellectuals (the 'sophists') of the later fifth century BC and their pretensions to knowledge. The dialogues are introduced and annotated by Malcolm Schofield, a leading authority on ancient Greek political philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.
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