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Symposium or Drinking Party

Plato

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Imprint: Focus
Published: 02/2025
Pages: 138
Print ISBN: 9781590000000
eBook ISBN: 9781585108541
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5

DESCRIPTION

This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work: ´A concise introduction sets the scene, conveys the tenor of the dialogue, and introduces the reader to the main characters with a gloss on their backgrounds and a comment on their roles in the dialogue. It also provides a list of basic points for readers to keep in mind as they read the work.´A thought-provoking interpretive essay offers reflections on the themes of the dialogue, focusing especially on the dialogue as drama.´A select bibliography points to works, both classic and contemporary, that are especially relevant to readers of the Symposium.´Two appendices consist of a line drawing that depicts the spacial layout and positioning of characters in the Symposium, and a chart that shows the relation of the first six speeches to number, age, parentage and the function of Eros.

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