Protagoras / Edition 1

by Plato, Stanley Lombardo, Karen Bell, Michael Frede

Overview

Lombardo and Bell have translated this important early dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature of Sophistic teaching into an idiom remarkable for its liveliness and subtlety. Michael Frede has provided a substantial introduction that illuminates the dialogue's perennial interest, its Athenian political background, and the particular difficulties and ironic nuances of its argument.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872200944
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/1992
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	645,630
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stanley Lombardo is Professor of Classics, University of Kansas.

Editorial Reviews

A very readable translation that conveys both the philosophical and the dramatic context better than any existing translation. It is extremely accurate in conveying the movement of the argument and in noting significant points of philosophical usage. . . . I am very impressed with the vividness and the easy flow of the prose. —John Cooper, Princeton University

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