One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner party in Athens in 416 B.C. at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor, Socrates - playfully discuss the …
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One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner party in Athens in 416 B.C. at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor, Socrates - playfully discuss the nature of eros, or love. By turns earthly and sublime, the dialogue culminates with Socrates's famous account of the "ladder of love," an extended analysis of the many forms of eros.
The evening ends with a speech by the drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and powerful Athenian of the day, who insists on praising Socrates rather than love, offering up a brilliant character sketch of the enigmatic philosopher.
This Modern Library edition is the authoritative translation by Benjamin Jowett, substantially revised by Dr. Hayden Pelliccia, associate professor of classics at Cornell University. This revised translation takes into account advances in scholarship since Jowett's day and modernizes the Victorian English where it is coy or archaic. The result is a translation neither too colloquial nor too literal, one that is faithful to both Jowett's superb prose and Plato's matchless original.
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Symposium
Brossura
lingua English
Pubblicato da Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-0-672-60169-9ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 16117072
El Banquete o Sobre el amor
Brossura, 160 pagine
Pubblicato da Escolar y Mayo Editores.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-16020-12-6ISBN copiato!
Das Gastmahl : Gespräch über Liebe und Erotik
Brossura, 44 pagine
Pubblicato da E-Artnow, e-artnow.
- ISBN:
- 978-80-268-5942-0ISBN copiato!
El banquete, o del Amor
Brossura, 76 pagine
Pubblicato da Editorial Verbum.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-1337-493-2ISBN copiato!
El banquet
Brossura, 170 pagine
Pubblicato da Llibres de L'Índex (Ediciones de La Tempestad, S.L.).
- ISBN:
- 978-84-948120-6-4ISBN copiato!
O Banquete
104, pagine
lingua Portuguese
Pubblicato il 2018 da Edições 70.
- ISBN:
- 978-972-44-1353-2ISBN copiato!
The Symposium
144, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato da Penguin Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-044927-3ISBN copiato!
The banquet of Plato
149, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1908 da Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Co..
- Numero OCLC:
- 2639868
Symposion / Das Gastmahl. (Griechisch/ Deutsch)
Copertina rigida, 173 pagine
lingua German
Pubblicato da Artemis & Winkler.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-7608-1576-3ISBN copiato!
Le banquet
lingua French
Pubblicato il 1992 da Les Belles lettres.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-251-00378-8ISBN copiato!
Simposio
227, pagine
lingua Italian
Pubblicato il 2009 da Einaudi.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-06-19773-5ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 642290294
The banquet of Plato
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1908 da Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin.
Le banquet
174, pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato il 2010 da Les Belles Lettres.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-251-80012-7ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 587025436
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