Bookbot

Oxford World's Classics: Symposium

A New Translation by Robin Waterfield

Hodnotenie knihy

Parametre

  • 160 stránok
  • 6 hodin čítania

Viac o knihe

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 power, humor, and pathos of Plato's creation and is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction.

Nákup knihy

Oxford World's Classics: Symposium, Platón, Robin Waterfield

Jazyk
Rok vydania
1998
product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
(mäkká)
Akonáhle sa objaví, pošleme e-mail.

Platobné metódy

4,0
Veľmi dobrá
125 Hodnotenie

Tu nám chýba tvoja recenzia

Titul
Oxford World's Classics: Symposium
Podtitul
A New Translation by Robin Waterfield
Jazyk
anglicky
Rok vydania
1998
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
160
ISBN10
0192834274
ISBN13
9780192834270
Série
Hodnotenie
4 z 5
Anotácia
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 power, humor, and pathos of Plato's creation and is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction.