Omschrijving
This edition of Plato’s Symposium provides a new and accurate translation, with a substantial commentary taking into account readers with no or little Greek. It treats the text as a work of serious philosophy, offering a fresh reading of a central and influential Platonic text. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.
C. J. Rowe is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient at Durham University. His major publications include Plato: Theaetetus and Sophist (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (CUP, 2007), and he has edited and translated Plato’s Phaedrus and Statesman in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.