Republic (Hackett Classics) - Softcover

Plato

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872201368 ISBN 13: 9780872201361

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 1992

Synopsis

The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Platos text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato's thought since publication of the first edition in 1974. A new introduction, index, and bibliography by Professor Reeve are included in this new rendering.

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Review

Reeve has reworked the Grube translation thoroughly, raising the level of philosophical accuracy and updating the language, all the while retaining--and indeed enhancing--the celebrated readability of the Grube original. For a long time to come, Grube-Reeve will deservedly be the first choice of scholars and students alike. --John Cooper, Princeton University

C.D.C. Reeve has taken the excellent Grube translation and, without sacrificing accuracy, rendered it into a vivid and contemporary style. It is intensity that is often lost in translation, but not here. This is not just a matter of style. The "Republic" is full of brilliant thoughts, and one needs to preserve brilliance to capture them. In the cave of translations, Reeve s revision of Grube's "Republic" is closest to the sun. --Jonathan Lear, University of Chicago"

C.D.C. Reeve has taken the excellent Grube translation and, without sacrificing accuracy, rendered it into a vivid and contemporary style. It is intensity that is often lost in translation, but not here. This is not just a matter of style. The Republic is full of brilliant thoughts, and one needs to preserve brilliance to capture them. In the cave of translations, Reeve's revision of Grube's Republic is closest to the sun. --Jonathan Lear, University of Chicago

Reeve has reworked the Grube translation thoroughly, raising the level of philosophical accuracy and updating the language, all the while retaining--and indeed enhancing--the celebrated readability of the Grube original. For a long time to come, Grube-Reeve will deservedly be the first choice of scholars and students alike. --John Cooper, Princeton University

Book Description

The late James Adam's edition of The Republic of Plato was published in 1902 and remains the most detailed and valuable critical edition available. D. A. Rees has written an introduction of 15,000 words for this edition. In it, he surveys Adam's work on the textual problems, language and meaning of The Republic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872201368
• ISBN 13: 9780872201361
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Reeve C. D. C., Grube G. M. A.