The Symposium. Eited by M.C. Howatson and Fr.C.C. Sheffield, translated by M.C. Howatson. - Plato
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Sheffield's Introduction does a nice job of explaining the backgrounds of most characters - though more details appear in the Glossary of Names. She also helps the reader understand the significance - within the text and within the historical setting - of both eros and of symposia. She then offers a brief account of each speech, showing how the early speeches relate to each other as well as how each raises aspects of problems confronted in Socrates' speech. Sheffield then offers a more detailed analysis of Socrates' speech, the speech in which Socrates relates the conversation that he may have once had with a woman named Diotima. Sheffield's account draws on her compelling recent book, Plato's Symposium: 'The Ethics of Desire.' (...) Following the Introduction is a brief Chronology, a regrettably brief bibliography ('Further reading'), a Translator's Note, and the text of the dialogue. The book ends with a very thorough glossary of Greek terms as well as a glossary of names. These last are quite useful, and w...
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Cambridge (...), 2008. XXXV,91p. Hard bound. [New] [Auteur: PLATO,] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2008] [Titel: The Symposium. Eited by M.C. Howatson and Fr.C.C. Sheffield, translated by M.C. Howatson.]
