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Synopsis
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, the Gorgias debates crucial questions about the nature of government. While the aspiring politician Callicles propounds the view that might is right, and the rhetorician Gorgias argues that oratory and the power to persuade represent 'the greatest good', Socrates insists on the duty of politicians to consider the welfare of their citizens - a duty he believed had been dishonoured in the Athens of his time. The dialogue offers insights into how classical Athens was governed, as well as creating a theoretical framework that has been highly influential on subsequent political debate.
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`Professor Dodds's fine edition (which both fairly overhauls the manuscript tradition and supplies a commentary as wide-ranging as it is perspicacious) fills a gap untouched in this country since 1890 ... The Gorgias should have a special appeal to contemporary students, and to historians no less than philosophers.' Times Literary Supplement `The admired qualities of [Dodd's works], a scholarship both exact and deep, an economy and lucidity in exposition (Dodds has few rivals in saying much in the fewest words with absolute clarity), and an immense level-headedness and sobriety which - combined with the sharpest acumen and independence of judgement in the handling of evidence - is never seduced by the charm of fantasy, all these once more characterize his edition of the Gorgias.'Philosophical Quarterly
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Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC) was an immensely influential ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens where Aristotle studied. E. R. Dodds was a former Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford University, 1936 to 1960.
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Gorgias: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary
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Plato: Gorgias: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary
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PLATO: GORGIAS; A Revised Text with Commentary
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Many pencil notes to Greek text with very light ink. Front hinge cracked.; Based on a fresh survey of the work, this revised edition of the late E. R. Dodds's standard edition of Plato's Gorgias includes two major manuscripts, collated here for the first time, and examines new papyri. A full introduction by E. R. Dodds, who was for many years Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, supplements the text, explaining the subject and structure of the dialogue, its characters and historical setting, the real date of composition, and background to Plato and Athens at the time of composition. Text is in Greek and English.; 0.97 x 8.47 x 5.46 Inches; 406 pages. Seller Inventory # 40322
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Gorgias. A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary
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PLATO: GORGIAS; A Revised Text with Commentary
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Pages tanned. Some pencilling with a bit of pen notes. Scholar's name to ffep (J. P. Sullivan). Small dampstain to top of textblock.; Based on a fresh survey of the work, this revised edition of the late E. R. Dodds's standard edition of Plato's Gorgias includes two major manuscripts, collated here for the first time, and examines new papyri. A full introduction by E. R. Dodds, who was for many years Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, supplements the text, explaining the subject and structure of the dialogue, its characters and historical setting, the real date of composition, and background to Plato and Athens at the time of composition. Text is in Greek and English.; 0.97 x 8.47 x 5.46 Inches; 406 pages. Seller Inventory # 40339
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Gorgias: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary
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Gorgias
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