Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Academy
Author: Athenaeum
Author: The Academy and Literature
Author: The Dialogues of Plato
Author: PlatoSelected Dialogues of Plato
Author: PlatoPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307423611
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style. Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces the Socratic method. Protagoras discusses poetic interpretation and shows why cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth. Phaedrus takes on the nature of rhetoric, psychology, and love, as does the famous Symposium. Finally, Apology gives us Socrates' art of persuasion put to the ultimate test--defending his own life. Pelliccia's new Introduction to this volume clarifies its contents and addresses the challenges of translating Plato freshly and accurately. In its combination of accessibility and depth, Selected Dialogues of Plato is the ideal introduction to one of the key thinkers of all time.
Bulletin of the Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Catalogue of the Apprentices' Library
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Plato on Poetry
Author: PlatoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521349819
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Prior to publication of this 1996 book, much had been written on Plato as a critic of literature, but no commentaries had appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening books of the Republic in which Plato launches his famous attack on poetry, since the early years of this century. This volume brings together these texts and the relevant section of Republic 10. It aims to provide the reader with a commentary which takes account of modern scholarship on the subject, and which explores the ambivalence of Plato's pronouncements on poetry through an analysis of his own skill as a writer. A general introduction sets Plato's views in the wider context of attitudes to poetry in Greek society before his time, and indicates the main ways in which his writings on poetry have influenced the history of aesthetic thought in European culture.