An edition of Συμπόσιον (1559)

Le banquet

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An edition of Συμπόσιον (1559)

Le banquet

  • 4.20 ·
  • 25 Ratings
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  • 5 Currently reading
  • 27 Have read

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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Publisher
Livre de Poches
Language
French
Pages
158

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Cover of: Pidot (Symposion)
Pidot (Symposion)
2016-10-16, Project Gutenberg
in Finnish
Cover of: Συμπόσιον
Συμπόσιον: ή περί έρωτος
2011-04, Project Gutenberg
in Ancient Greek
Cover of: Symposium
Symposium
2006, Pearson Education, Limited
in English
Cover of: Symposium
Symposium
1999-01-01, Project Gutenberg
in English
Cover of: Le banquet
Le banquet
1999, Belles lettres
in French
Cover of: Le banquet
Le banquet
1991, Livre de Poches
in French
Cover of: Simposio
Simposio
1988, Biblioteca universale Rizzoli
in Italian and Ancient Greek
Cover of: Symposium
Symposium
/1970, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
Paperback in English
Cover of: Oeuvres complètes
Oeuvres complètes: Tome IV-2e partie: Le banquet
1966, Société d'édition Les Belles Lettres
in French
Cover of: Oeuvres complètes
Cover of: The banquet of Plato
The banquet of Plato
1908, Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin
in English
Cover of: The banquet of Plato
The banquet of Plato
1908, Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton Mifflin Co.
in English
Cover of: The banquet of Plato
The banquet of Plato
1895, Way and Williams
in English
Cover of: The banquet of Plato
The banquet of Plato
1895, Way and Williams
in English

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Edition Notes

Index p. [145]-155.

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Paris

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Dewey Decimal Class
184

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Pagination
158 p.
Number of pages
158

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24940898M
Internet Archive
lebanquet00plat
ISBN 10
2253057282
ISBN 13
9782253057284
OCLC/WorldCat
25649767

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