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Plato's Symposium

Name: Plato's Symposium
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780195160802
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PLATOS SYMPOSIUM

Contributor(s): Hunter, R. Lanny Author , Hunter, Richard Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780195160802
Subtitle	PLATOS SYMPOSIUM
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	June 2004
Language	English
MRP	£39.99 GBP
Page count	168
Item weight	42 g

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.

Plato's Symposium

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Hunter, R. Lanny Author

Hunter, Richard Author

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