Plato: Phaedrus

by Plato, R. Hackforth (Editor)

Overview

The dialogue begins with a playful discussion of erotic passion, then extends the theme to consider the nature of inspiration, love and knowledge. The centerpiece is the myth of the charioteer - the famous and moving account of the vision, fall and incarnation of the soul. Professor Hackforth here translates the dialogue for the student and general reader. There is a running commentary on the course of the argument and the meaning of the key Greek terms, and a full intoduction to explain the philosophical background and the place of this work among Plato's writings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521097031
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/11/1972
Series:	Classical Texts Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Harvey Yunis is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Classics at Rice University. He is the author of several books and many articles on ancient Greek rhetoric, political theory and the prose authors of fourth-century Greece, especially Plato. His most important previous publications include Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens (1996), Demosthenes: On the Crown (Cambridge, 2001) and, as editor, Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece (2003).

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
	Note on the Text	l
	Select Bibliography	li
	Phaedrus	1
	Explanatory Notes	76
	Textual Notes	106
	Index of Names	107