The Symposium and The Phaedo
Crofts Classics
1. Edition July 2012
144 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-88295-122-5
John Wiley & Sons
Raymond Larson's excellent translation of the dialogues that deal, respectively, with the nature of eros and the immortality of the soul are supplemented by careful annotation, a fine introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Plato, and a selected bibliography.
Introduction vii
principal dates xxiii
The Symposium 1
The Phaedo 53
bibliography 115
principal dates xxiii
The Symposium 1
The Phaedo 53
bibliography 115
Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the development of Western philosophy.
Raymond Larson is the translator of The Symposium and The Phaedo, published by Wiley.
Raymond Larson is the translator of The Symposium and The Phaedo, published by Wiley.