The "Symposium" of Plato - Softcover

Plato

 
9780870230769: The "Symposium" of Plato

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Outstanding graphic artist LEONARD BASKIN has contributed a series of line drawings, including portraits of Socrates and Diotima.SUZY Q GRODEN, who lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the acclaimed translator of The Poems of Sappho.JOHN A. BRENTLINGERreceived his Ph.D. from Yale University and is a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts. 

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This new translation of Plato's dialogue on love avoids the cumbersome locutions of Victorian versions and presents Plato's ancient drinking party in a vigorous contemporary idiom. The character of Socrates emerges with unexpected with and humor, adding new dimensions to his familiar irony.

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