Plato`s Symposium – A Translation by Seth Benardete with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete

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About the author

Plato (c. 427-347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period of Greece and a student of Socrates. Thirty-five dialogues and thirteen letters have traditionally been ascribed to Plato. He founded the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Product details

• Authors: Seth Benardete, Benardete Seth, Allan David Bloom, Plato, Plato Plato
• Assisted by: Seth Benardete (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2001
• EAN: 9780226042756
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04275-6
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 348 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary essays, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory