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PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM
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| By: |
Richard Hunter |
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Paperback |
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£33.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0195160800 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780195160802 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 2004 |
| Series: |
Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature |
| Pages: |
164 |
| Description: |
The Symposium is Plato's best-known work. It is now a seminal text, not just for the representation of Socrates, Plato's ontology, and for the history of ideas about desire, but for Athenian social and political history, the history of rhetoric, and for the image of the intellectual in Western tradition. It is also a high point in classical literary art. This book pays close attention to parody of modes of style and thought as well as to the provocativeconstruction of the whole. It will introduce readers to the work itself by contextualizing it in Greek literature in general and the Platonic corpus in particular, and, with necessary brevity, to the main outlines of its reception and influence. |
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Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature (Series Editors: Kathleen Coleman and Richard Rutherford) introduces individual works of Greek and Latin literature to readers who are approaching them for the first time. Each volume sets the work in its literary and historical context, and aims to offer a balanced and engaging assessment of its content, artistry, and purpose. A brief survey of the influence of the work upon subsequent generations is included to demonstrate its enduring relevance and power. All quotations from the original are translated into English. Plato's Symposium tells of a dinner party at a crucial point in Athenian history at which the guests decide that they will each in turn deliver a speech in praise of love. The humorous and brilliant work that follows points the way towards all Western thinking about love. The Symposium is also one of Plato's most sophisticated meditations on the practice of philosophy. This book introduces the literary and historical context of Plato's work, surveys and explains the arguments, and considers why Plato has cast this work in a highly unusual narrative form.A final chapter traces the influence of the Symposium from antiquity to the modern day. |
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US |
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Oxford University Press Inc |
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