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 and Phaedrus, to the dialectician of the
Republic. Of Reeve's translation of this final masterpiece, Lloyd
P. Gerson writes, "Taking full advantage of S. R. Slings' new Greek
text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation both
accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep
familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page. Reeve's
brilliant decision to cast the dialogue into direct speech produces
a compelling impression of immediacy unmatched by other English
translations currently available."