Plato: Republic Book I

"Offers intermediate Greek students a reliable, up-to-date introduction to Plato's most influential work. Plato's Greek is not difficult, but his ideas have generated considerable controversy. Book I serves as a dramatic introduction to them, with its memorable confrontation between Socrates and the sophist Thrasymachus over the nature of justice"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Plato: Republic Book I; Commentary.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

DAVID SANSONE is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published on topics ranging from Bronze-Age iconography to the poetry of John Milton and the music dramas of Richard Wagner. He specializes in Greek language and literature and is the author of Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric (2012), Ancient Greek Civilization (2016) and Plato: Menexenus (Cambridge, 2020).

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David Sansone, David (University of Illinois Sansone
• Mitarbeit: David Sansone (Herausgeber), David (University of Illinois Sansone (Herausgeber), Sansone David (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781108833455
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83345-5
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Print on Demand; Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Greece, Athens, Classical texts, Ancient World, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, For higher / tertiary / university education, 4th century, c 399 to c 300 BCE