Plato's 'Symposium'

Zusatztext [Hunter's] fine study does full justice to the complexity of this ever fascinating work and will encourage further thought amongst readers. Informationen zum Autor Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Klappentext Plato's Symposium tells of a dinner party at a crucial point in Athenian history at which the guests decide that they will each in turn deliver a speech in praise of love. The humorous and brilliant work that follows points the way towards all Western thinking about love. The Symposium is also one of Plato's most sophisticated meditations on the practice of philosophy. This book introduces the literary and historical context of Plato's work, surveys and explains the arguments, and considers why Plato has cast this work in a highly unusual narrative form. A final chapter traces the influence of the Symposium from antiquity to the modern day. Zusammenfassung This title introduce readers to 'The Symposium' by contextualizing it in Greek literature in general and the Platonic corpus in particular, and, with necessary brevity, to the main outlines of its reception and influence.

Product details

• Authors: Hunter, R. Lanny Hunter, Richard Hunter, Richard (Regius Professor of Greek Hunter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.08.2004
• EAN: 9780195160802
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516080-2
• No. of pages: 164
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 218 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature; Oxford Approaches Classical Li; Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature; Oxford Approaches to Classical
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500