Plato: Phaedrus

Informationen zum Autor Harvey Yunis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Classics at Rice University. He is the author of several books and many articles on ancient Greek rhetoric, political theory and the prose authors of fourth-century Greece, especially Plato. His most important previous publications include Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens (1996), Demosthenes: On the Crown (Cambridge, 2001) and, as editor, Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece (2003). Klappentext Provides all the tools necessary to read and understand Plato's Phaedrus in the original Greek. Zusammenfassung A new edition! with Greek text and Commentary! primarily intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of ancient Greek literature and philosophy! although also useful for scholars who want an up-to-date account of how to understand the text! argument! style and background of the work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Text; Commentary; Appendix: synopsis of the Phaedrus.

Product details

• Authors: Plato
• Assisted by: Harvey Yunis (Editor), Harvey (Rice University Yunis (Editor), Yunis Harvey (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.05.2011
• EAN: 9780521847766
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84776-6
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Ancient, classical and medieval texts