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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog alternative "Symposium. English".
- catalog contributor b9531289.
- catalog contributor b9531290.
- catalog contributor b9531291.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xix, 100 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Symposium.".
- catalog identifier "067960197X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Symposium.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng grc".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Modern Library,".
- catalog relation "Symposium.".
- catalog subject "184 20".
- catalog subject "B385.A5 J672 1996".
- catalog subject "Philosophy Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Socrates.".
- catalog title "Symposium : the Benjamin Jowett translation / Plato ; substantially revised by Hayden Pelliccia.".
- catalog title "Symposium. English".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "text".