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Thucydides, Gorgias, Lysias, Plato Menexenus, Demosthenes, and Hyperides;with Herrman, Judson (Translation, Introduction, Notes,Biblio.com

Athenian Funeral Orations ; Translations are in English including Introduction Notes and Literary and Historical Commentary. ANCIENT GREECE

2003Best.-Nr. 24278Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co Incus. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 90 pages; clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- DESCRIPTION: This volume collects all of the surviving state funeral orations from Athens including Thucydides Gorgias Lysias Plato Menexenus Demosthenes and Hyperides. To stimulate student discussion and comparison For reference Lincoln's address at Gettysburg is included in an appendix. Translations are in English including introduction and notes as well as literary and historical commentary. -- AUTHOR: Jud Herrman is Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Allegheny College. -- FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Throughout the fifth and fourth centuries BC at the close of each campaign season the Athenian state honored its war-dead in a public burial ceremony choosing a prominent orator to give the keynote address. This volume collects all of the surviving state funeral orations from classical Athens. Like tragedy these speeches present an image of an idealized Athens. The narratives of past Athenian glories found in these speeches feature many of the same mythical tales that were also presented on stage. Like many of the plays the funeral orations emphasize important themes such as Athenian unity their aid to suppliants and their willingness to drive away foreign invaders to protect the other Greeks. The selective version of more recent history found in the funeral orations also highlights these same qualities by focusing on the role of Athens during the Persian Wars 490-479 when the city helped save the other Greeks from invading foreigners and by passing over other events such as the Peloponnesian War 431–404 in which Athens opposed fellow Greeks. Although nearly all of the surviving Greek tragedies are set in the distant mythical past the significant exception is Aeschylus’ Persians the audience in the theater would recognize aspects of contemporary Athens in the depiction of ancient Athenian heroes such as Theseus. The funeral orations draw similar connections more explicitly by presenting a continuous narrative tying the present generation with the great heroes of long ago." -- with a bonus offer--; 520-Herrm; Thucydides Gorgias Lysias Plato Menexenus Demosthenes and Hyperides; with Herrman Judson Translation Introduction notes Commentary Athenian Funeral Orations ; Translations are in English including Introduction notes and literary and histori . 2003. 1585100781 . Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co Inc,us paperback

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PLATO ; Stephen Hill (editor, IntroductionBiblio.com

The Power of Plato: An Anthology of New Translations

2002Best.-Nr. 34907United Kingdom: Duckworth Pub. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 160 pages; 5 1/4 8 3/4 inches - SEE IMPORTANT INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR - A collection of Plato's work showing the unsurpassed power of his writing which ultimately lies in the fact that he was as much a literary as a philosophic genius. - Plato is without doubt one of the most important thinkers who has ever lived and his voice still resonates through all the disciplines of our time - politics justice law ethics beauty art education mathematics religion cosmology language and the afterlife are all embraced in his works. The new translations in this collection seek to reveal the unsurpassed power of his writing which ultimately lies in the fact that he was as much a literary as a philosophic genius. An introduction on the life works influences and philosophy of Plato sets the scene for the anthology of translations that follow which pay special attention to the meanings of key words and phrases and in several cases seek to replicate the structure and feel of the original Greek. The book concludes with a short essay on the philosophical dispute with Plato’s most famous pupil Aristotle. The Power of Plato is for all those searching for a first insight into the genius of Plato for students wishing to translate and understand his works and for those already familiar with his writings who welcome a fresh approach to the teachings of the greatest European philosopher. - TOC: Translator’s Note Introduction 1. Portraits of Socrates 2. The Death of Socrates 3. Creation and the Ages 4. The Use and Misuse of Language and Number 5. The Sophists and Education 6. Politics and Society 7. Life and Living 8. Law and Justice 9. Measure and Proportion 10. Knowledge and the Forms 11. Love Beauty and the Good 12. The Soul and Immortality 13. Appendix: Plato’s Divided Line Afterword: The Platonic-Aristotelian Controversy. -- with a bonus offer--; 520-Hills; Plato ; Stephen Hill editor PLATO PLATONISTS PHILOSOPHY ANCIENT HISTORYThe Power of Plato: An Anthology of New Translations FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- SEE IMPORTANT INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR - Plato is without doubt one of . 2002. 0715631608 . Duckworth Pub paperback

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Chappell, Timothy (Transl And Commentary); Plato (Author of dialogue)Biblio.com

READING PLATO'S THEAETETUS: TRANSLATION AND NEW AUTHOR COMMENTARY; International Plato Studies Bd. 20 PHILOSOPHY EPISTEMOLOGY ONTOLOGY KNOWLEDGE FORMS METAPHYSICS ETHICS DIALOGUES

2004Best.-Nr. 33805Academia Verlag. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 246 pages size: 155 x 23 cm -- FLAWLESS COPY -- AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY -- Choose us for the information you need -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface 1. About this book 2. About Plato and his works 3. About Platonic dialogues and about the Theaetetus 4. The overall structure of the Theaetetus 5. Alternative interpretations of the Theaetetus as a whole 6. The introduction to the dialogue: 142a-145e 7. The question "What is knowledge" and the rejection of D0 a definition by examples: 145e7-147c6 8. A contrasting case: definition in mathematics: 147c7-148e5 9. Socrates the midwife's apprentice: 148e6-151d7 10. First definition D1 and consequent discussion: "Knowledge is perception": survey of 151-187 11. The statement of Theaetetus' first genuine definition D1: 151d8-e4 12. First statement of Protagoras' views: 151e5-152c8 13. First statement of Heracleitus' views: 152c8-152e1 -- DESCRIPTION: Timothy Chappell's Reading Plato's Theaetetus offers a complete new translation of Plato's most famous dialogue on knowledge together with an extended philosophical commentary. Dr Chappell defends an original form of the Unitarian reading of the dialogue arguing that Plato's aim in this enigmatic work is to show how little we can do towards defining or understanding knowledge if we try to do it on an empiricist or naturalist basis. The book also contains a wealth of argument on subsidiary topics-the language of the dialogue its date and place in Plato's development and its relation to earlier and later Greek thought in general. -- AUTHOR: Dr Chappell is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee. -- with a bonus offer--; 520-Chapp; Chappell Timothy. Transl. And Commentary READING PLATO'S THEAETETUS: TRANSLATION AND NEW AUTHOR COMMENTARY; International Plato Studies Bd. 20 PHILOSOPHY EPISTEMOLOGY ONTOLOGY KNOWLEDGE FORMS METAPHYSICS ETHICS LATE SOCRATES DIALOGUES PHILOSO . 2004. 3896653156 . Academia Verlag hardcover

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