Plato's Symposium /
The Symposium is Plato's best-known work. It is now a seminal text, not just for the representation of Socrates, Plato's ontology, and for the history of ideas about desire, but for Athenian social and political history, the history of rhetoric, and for the image of the intellectual in Wes...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Oxford approaches to classical literature.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | The Symposium is Plato's best-known work. It is now a seminal text, not just for the representation of Socrates, Plato's ontology, and for the history of ideas about desire, but for Athenian social and political history, the history of rhetoric, and for the image of the intellectual in Western tradition. It is also a high point in classical literary art. This book pays close attention to parody of modes of style and thought as well as to the provocative construction of the whole. It will introduce readers to the work itself by contextualizing it in Greek literature in general and the Platonic. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 150 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780198036449 0198036442 142372075X 9781423720751 0195160797 9780195160796 0195160800 9780195160802 |
