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9780521199124 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2015, cover price $99.99
Product Description: Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who Socrates "really" wasâthe true history of his activities and beliefsâhas long been thought insoluble, and most recent Socratic studies have instead focused on reconstructing his legacy and tracing his ideas through other philosophical traditions...read more
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9780812246292 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, July 24, 2014, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth.
Product Description: In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career. The contributors to this carefully focussed volume cover aspects of the background to the work; its arguments and the philosophical issues it raises; its relationship to other Platonic texts, and its subsequent history up to the time of the Neoplatonists...read more
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9780715640869 | Bristol Classical Pr, April 15, 2012, cover price $140.00
Paperback:
9781472504463 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 2, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In the Platonic work Alcibiades I, a divinely guided Socrates adopts the guise of a lover in order to divert Alcibiades from an unthinking political career.
Hardcover:
9781409408284 | Ashgate Pub Co, January 1, 2011, cover price $180.00
Paperback:
9780521035774 | 1 reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 29, 2007), cover price $44.99
Product Description: This important collection of original essays is the first to concentrate at length on how the ancients responded to the challenge of reading and interpreting Plato, primarily between 100 BC and AD, edited by Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto; 600...read more
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9780715634554 | Bristol Classical Pr, July 30, 2006, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This important collection of original essays is the first to concentrate at length on how the ancients responded to the challenge of reading and interpreting Plato, primarily between 100 BC and AD, edited by Lloyd Gerson, University of Toronto; 600.
Product Description: Plato's Meno is a dynamic and entertaining examination of the nature and origin of the kind of excellence displayed by successful Greek leaders. That such excellence existed was difficult to deny, but people expected to show it often disappointed, and others expected to know about it seemed confused...read more
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9780715632918 | Bristol Classical Pr, August 15, 2005, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Plato's Meno is a dynamic and entertaining examination of the nature and origin of the kind of excellence displayed by successful Greek leaders.
Product Description: Harold Tarrant here explores ancient attempts to interpret Plato's writings, by philosophers who spoke a Greek close to Plato's own, and provides a fresh, almost primitive reading of Plato himself. His book also serves as a synthesis of recent work on ancient interpreters of Plato...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780801437922 | Cornell Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $110.50 | About this edition: Harold Tarrant here explores ancient attempts to interpret Plato's writings, by philosophers who spoke a Greek close to Plato's own, and provides a fresh, almost primitive reading of Plato himself.
Product Description: This book provides a translation of the only surving ancient commentary on Plato's Goroias, written by the Alexandrian Platonist Olympiodorus in the sixth century A.D. There are substantial notes on the commentary, which assist the reader to understand the context of Olympiodorus' Platonism, the choices available to him as an interpreter, and the special characteristics of his interpretation...read more
Hardcover:
9789004109728 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 1998, cover price $217.00 | About this edition: This book provides a translation of the only surving ancient commentary on Plato's Goroias, written by the Alexandrian Platonist Olympiodorus in the sixth century A.
Product Description: Plato. The Last Days of Socrates. London, Penguin Books, 1993. 13 cm x 20 cm. 237 Pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Slight tear on the front cover. Annotations throughout the book...read more
Paperback:
9780140445824 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1995), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Plato.
Hardcover:
9780801427190 | Cornell Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $55.00
Product Description: In the first half of the first century BC the Academy of Athens broke up in disarray. From the wreckage of the semi-sceptical school there arose the new dogmatic philosophy of Antiochus, synthesized from Stoicism and Platonism, and the hardline Pyrrhonist scepticism of Aenesidemus...read more
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9780521301916 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1985, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: In the first half of the first century BC the Academy of Athens broke up in disarray.
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