Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Selected Dialogues of Plato: The Benjamin Jowett Translation
By (Author) Plato
Introduction by Hayden Pelliccia
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th September 2001
11th September 2001
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
184
Physical Properties
Paperback
352
Width 132mm, Height 203mm, Spine 19mm
306g
Description
Hayden Pellicia has substantially revised Benjamin Jowet's classic Victorian era translations of five of Plato's richest and most entertaining dialogues - Ion, Protagorus, Phaedrus, Symposium and Apology.
Reviews
"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author Bio
Dr. Hayden Pelliccia is associate professor and chair of classics at Cornell University. Plato (c. 428 B.C. -- 347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates. He founded the Academy in Athens, the prototype of the modern university, whose most famous member was Aristotle.
