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Xenophon: Symposium (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
A. Bowen
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Description for Xenophon: Symposium (Aris and Phillips Classical Texts)
Paperback. This Symposium has lived so much in the shadow of the famous one by Plato, that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it gives the only alternative view of Socrates and has a wit and vigour of its own which paints a picture of a Greek society that makes it a document of prime historical importance. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages, commentary, notes. BIC Classification: 2AHA; HPCA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 211 x 9. Weight in Grams: 222.
The Symposium that Xenophon wrote has lived in the shadow of the more famous one by Plato, so much so that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it is a work as useful for its Greek as it is precious for its content. Socrates is the hero of each Symposium, but most of our understanding of him is usually owed to Plato; we risk assuming that his portrait of Socrates is right. Xenophon saw the man differently: his picture is independent and it is the only significant surviving alternative view. ... Read more
The Symposium that Xenophon wrote has lived in the shadow of the more famous one by Plato, so much so that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it is a work as useful for its Greek as it is precious for its content. Socrates is the hero of each Symposium, but most of our understanding of him is usually owed to Plato; we risk assuming that his portrait of Socrates is right. Xenophon saw the man differently: his picture is independent and it is the only significant surviving alternative view. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Series
Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
156
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856686825
SKU
V9780856686825
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About A. Bowen
A. J. Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1993 to 2007 he was Orator of the University. His publications include Aeschylus: Suppliant Women and Plutarch: The Malice of Herodotus in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series.
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