| #258864 in Books | Oxford University Press USA | 2009-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.00 x.60 x7.60l,.25 | File type: PDF | 160 pages | Oxford University Press USA||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Good translation, good notes|By Paul Giurlanda|The Symposium is what it is: a classic of western culture. So, when one offers a review, it's not about the text itself (I think) but for the translation, presentation and notes. So: Wakefield's translation is the smoothest I've read of this great text. His modern English makes the homoerotic context of the dialogue clear, fo||'In his lucid introduction Waterfield highlights the artistry and subtleties which might elude non-classicists. He emphasises that Plato's Symposium is fun.' Sophia Sackville-West, London Evening Standard|About the Author
In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and 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 a brilliant sketch of Socrates himself by a drunken...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Symposium (Oxford World's Classics) | Plato. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
