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The Republic
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other... more...
Gorgias
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. Gorgias is an important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation. The art of persuasion was necessary for political and legal... more...
Parmenides
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is perhaps Plato''s most challenging dialogue, as well as one of the most challenging works of philosophy ever written. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two... more...
Phaedrus
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato''s main protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, around the same time as Plato''s Republic... more...
The Ironic Defense of Socrates
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 66.00Arrives at a controversial new interpretation of Plato's Apology of Socrates by focusing on the meaning and extent of Socratic and Platonic irony. more...
The History of ΤΕΛΟΣ and ΤΕΛΕΩ in Ancient Greek
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1983; US$ 188.00The Poetics of Philosophical Language
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 168.00A close analysis of the Republic?s diverse literary styles shows how the peculiarities of verbal texture in Platonic discourse can be explained by Plato?s remolding of tropes and techniques from poetry and the Presocratics. This book argues that Plato smuggles poetic language into the Republic?s prose in order to characterize the deceitful coloration... more...
I lessici a Platone di Timeo Sofista e Pseudo-Didimo
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 182.00Two lexica to Plato have survived from Antiquity: the epitome of Timaeus and the so-calledPseudo-Didymus. This is the first critical edition of these lexica relying on a complete survey of their textual traditions, both direct and indirect, which are investigated in the Italian prefaces; it is also provided with an up-to-date picture of Timaeus, with... more...
Phaedo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1977; US$ 5.95The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless complement and reinforce each... more...
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