• Plato's Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete

    Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The Ladder of Love." In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers g... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0226042758
    • ASIN: 0226042758
    • ISBN: 9780226042756
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: University of Chicago Press

  • Plato: Complete Works

    Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and offers guidance on approaching the reading and study of Plato's works.Also included are concise introductions by Cooper and Hutchinson to each translation, metic... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0872203492
    • ASIN: 0872203492
    • ISBN: 0872203492
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Co.

  • Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Hackett Classics)

    The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.

    • ASIN: 0872206335
    • ASIN: 0872206335
    • ISBN: 0872206335
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

  • Symposium Of Plato: Shelley Translation

    Symposium Of Plato: Shelley Translation [Paperback] [Jul 01, 2002] Shelley, P...

    • ASIN: 1587318024
    • ASIN: 1587318024
    • ISBN: 1587318024
    • Brand: Brand: St. Augustines Press
    • Manufacturer: St. Augustines Press

  • Plato Symposium (Hackett Classics)

    A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction admirably presents both basic information and a sense of current scholarly opinion. --S. G. Nugent, Princeton University

    • ASIN: 0872200760
    • ASIN: 0872200760
    • ISBN: 0872200760
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Co

  • A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues (Hackett Classics)

    A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff.The collection features Socrates as its central character and a model of the examined life. Its range allows us to see him in action in very different settings and philosophical modes: from the elenctic Socrates of the Meno and the dialogues concerning his trial and death, to the erotic Socrates of the Symposium... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1603848118
    • ASIN: 1603848118
    • ISBN: 1603848118
    • Brand: Brand: Hackett Publishing Co.
    • Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

  • The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2: The Symposium

    R. E. Allen’s superb new translation of Plato’s Symposium brings this classic text to life for modern readers. Allen supplements his translation with a commentary that not only enriches our understanding of Plato’s philosophy and the world of Greek antiquity but also provides insights into present-day philosophical concerns.  Allen reveals the unity of Plato’s intentions in the Symposium, explores the dialogue’s major themes, and links them with Plato’s other dialogues. His wide-ranging commentary includes discussions of Greek religious, social, and sexual practices, the conceptua... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0300056990
    • ASIN: 0300056990
    • ISBN: 0300056990
    • Brand: Yale University Press
    • Manufacturer: Yale University Press

  • The Symposium (Penguin Classics)

    A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as everIn the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love—as a respo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0140449272
    • ASIN: 0140449272
    • ISBN: 9780140449273
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Plato : Meno (Focus Philosophical Library)

    This is an English translation of Plato’s Socratic dialogue attempting to achieve a definition of virtue that applies equally to all particular virtues and serves as a great introduction to Socratic dialogues. It contains a short introduction, notes, standard Stephanus numbers, speech numbers, and an appendix containing a unique gallery of step-by-step geometrical diagrams. It also includes illustrations, a bibliography, and a glossary. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide th... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0941051714
    • ASIN: 0941051714
    • ISBN: 0941051714
    • Manufacturer: Focus

  • Symposium (Oxford World's Classics)

    In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness, and a brilliant sketch of Socrates himself by a drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time. Engaging the reader on every page, this new translation conveys the ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0199540195
    • ASIN: 0199540195
    • ISBN: 0199540195
    • Brand: Oxford University Press USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

  • The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

    Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed by his intellectual predecessors and contemporaries, he was the first to bring them together by giving them a unitary treatment. This volume contains fourteen new essays discussing Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion. There are also ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0521436109
    • ASIN: 0521436109
    • ISBN: 9780521436106
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

  • Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions)

    Plato's brilliant dialogues, written in the fourth century B.C., rank among Western civilization's most important philosophical works. Presented as a series of probing conversations between Socrates and his students and fellow citizens, they form a magnificent dialectical quest that examines enduring political, ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues. Here, in one inexpensive edition, are six of Plato's remarkable and revelatory dialogues, each translated by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett. Apology defends the integrity of Socrates' teachings. Crito discusses respect ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0486454657
    • ASIN: 0486454657
    • ISBN: 9780486454658
    • Brand: Plato/ Jowett, Benjamin (TRN)
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

  • Symposium

    New translation by Tom Griffith In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party held by Agathon to celebrate his victory in the drama festival of the Dionysia. They talk about love until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in, and decides to talk about Socrates instead. "Symposium" gives a picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. This classic discussion on love is presented in its ideal medium: a multi-voice recording.

    • ASIN: 9626343834
    • ASIN: 9626343834
    • ISBN: 9626343834
    • Manufacturer: Naxos Audio Books

  • The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro; The Apology; Crito; Phaedo (Penguin Classics)

    Socrates spent a lifetime analyzing ethical issues, and the "Euthyphro" finds him outside the court-house, still debating the nature of piety with an arrogant acquaintance. "The Apology" is both a robust rebuttal to the charges of impiety and corrupting young minds and a definitive defence of the philosopher's life. Later, condemned and imprisoned in the "Crito", Socrates counters the arguments of friends urging him to escape. And finally, in the "Phaedo", Plato shows him calmly confident in the face of death, skilfully arguing the case for the immortality of the soul. Such works, as Harold Ta... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 014044582X
    • ASIN: 014044582X
    • ISBN: 014044582X
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Symposium and Phaedrus (Everyman's Library)

     It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato's dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. Of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and accessible, requiring no special knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy or customs. Dramatizing a party in fifth-century B.C. Athens, the deceptively unassuming Symposium introduces—in the guise of convivial after-dinner conversation—profound ideas about the nature of love. In Phaedrus, here published together with the Symposium, Plato discusses the place of eloquence in expounding truth. In both dialogues, Socrates plays ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0375411747
    • ASIN: 0375411747
    • ISBN: 9780375411748
    • Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

  • Plato's Symposium : A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete

    Plato's Symposium: A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth

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  • The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2 : The Symposium

    THE SYMPOSIUM [9780300056990]

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    • Rating: 3.938

  • NIRV Holy Bible : The Best Translation for Understanding God S Word

    A low-cost New International Reader s Version (NIrV) Bible with a readable font size, perfect for churches and ministries buying in

    • UPC: 441501706

  • Selected Dialogues of Plato : The Benjamin Jowett Translation

    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

    • UPC: 25675366
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Plato's Symposium - Audiobook

    The dramatic nature of Plato’s dialogues is delightfully evident in the Symposium. The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon’s house to celebrate the success of his first tragedy.

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    • Rating: 3.938

  • Plato's Symposium - Audiobook

    The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in Symposium. The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house to celebrate the success of his first tragedy. With

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    • Rating: 3.938

  • Symposium of Plato

    "By far the liveliest, most readable translation ever published of the "Symposium"--perhaps the liveliest, most readable translation of a Platonic dialogue ever printed."--John Patrick Lynch "Much the best translation of the "Symposium" that I have

    • UPC: 53332398
    • Rating: 3.938

  • Plato: The Symposium

    A new and accessible translation of Plato's Symposium with a substantial

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    • Rating: 3.938

  • Vintage Reading: From Plato To Bradbury: A Persona Tour Of Some Of The World's Best Books - eBook

    Vintage Reading brings eighty of the worlds most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an

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  • The Symposium and the Phaedrus : Plato's Erotic Dialogues

    The Symposium And The Phaedrus

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  • Aristophanes' Speech from Plato's Symposium read by A Poetry Channel

    A Brief Look at Plato's Symposium

    THE SYMPOSIUM by Plato - FULL Audio Book - Ancient Greek Philosophy