Symposium or Drinking Party

Plato, Peter Kalkavage, Eva Brann, Eric Salem

• Editorial: Focus
• Año: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781585108541
• Categoría: Philosophy
• Categoría: Ancient & Classical Philosophy

This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work:

• A concise introduction sets the scene, conveys the tenor of the dialogue, and introduces the reader to the main characters with a gloss on their backgrounds and a comment on their roles in the dialogue. It also provides a list of basic points for readers to keep in mind as they read the work.
• A thought-provoking interpretive essay offers reflections on the themes of the dialogue, focusing especially on the dialogue as drama.
• A select bibliography points to works, both classic and contemporary, that are especially relevant to readers of the Symposium.
• Two appendices consist of a line drawing that depicts the spacial layout and positioning of characters in the Symposium, and a chart that shows the relation of the first six speeches to number, age, parentage and the function of Eros.

Índice

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• The Focus Philosophical Library
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• To The Reader
• Symposium
• Essay
• Glossary
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Select Bibliography
• Back Cover