Plato Gorgias (Clarendon Paperbacks): A revised text, with Introduction and Commentary - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198144954 ISBN 13: 9780198144953

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

Synopsis

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.

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Review

`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

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198144954
• ISBN 13: 9780198144953
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416