Plato: Symposium, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Symposium
- Übersetzung:
- Robin Waterfield
- Verlag:
- Oxford University Press, 09/2008
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780199540198
- Artikelnummer:
- 5217967
- Umfang:
- 160 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2008
- Gewicht:
- 124 g
- Maße:
- 193 x 129 mm
- Stärke:
- 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 11.9.2008
- Serie:
- Oxford World's Classics
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Weitere Ausgaben von Symposium |
Preis |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 6,44* |
| Buch, Gebunden, Englisch | EUR 49,90* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 29,90* |
Klappentext
In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. And then into the partybursts the drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time, who insists on praising Socrates himself rather than love, and gives us a brilliant sketch of this enigmatic character. The power, humour, and pathos of Plato's creation engages the reader on every page. This new translation is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction.
Biografie (Robin Waterfield)
Robin Waterfield was formerly a university lecturer at the universities of Newcastle and St Andrews, before becoming a commissioning editor at Penguin Books. A freelance writer and translator since the early 1980s, he has published numerous translations of the Greek classics for both the Oxford World's Classics and Penguin Classics. He now lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm.
