Thinking of Death in Plato''s Euthydemus - A Close Reading and New Translation

Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates, including a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: This, That, and The Other


• 2: The Dual


• 3: Love and Stress


• 4: All Chorus and No Plot


• 5: Good Luck


• 6: Doing Less More


• 7: Contradiction


• 8: Wonder: The Beginning and End of Philosophy


• 9: Crito Interrupts Socrates


• 10: Dog-father and Father-dog


• 11: Predication, Equality, and Ritual Cannibalism


• 12: Death by Humor


• EUTHYDEMUS - A New Translation

About the author

Gwenda-lin Grewal is the Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Greek Thought and Language at the New School for Social Research. Her publications include English translations of Plato's Phaedo (2018) and Cratylus (forthcoming) and the book Fashion

Summary

Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates, including a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.

Additional text

Grewal's commentary is commendably ambitious...Grewal's rendition of the Platonic text is excellent overall, being especially valuable for its careful attention to the grammar of the Euthydemus in ways not found in the other English translations of which I am aware...will insist upon using this translation when teaching the Euthydemus to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the future.

Product details

• Authors: Gwenda-lin Grewal, Gwenda-Lin (Onassis Lecturer in Ancient Gr Grewal
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780192849571
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284957-1
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; HISTORY / Ancient / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Ancient, classical and medieval texts