Socrates Source Book Compiled Part by Ferguson John (1 results)
Language: English
Published by Macmillan for The Open University Press, London and Basingstoke, 1970
- Softcover
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pictorial card covers, slightly creased to front with mild shelf rubbing to top front and with some fingerprinting to back but otherwise clean, tight copy in good condition for its age. "The main body of the book is a collection in English of ancient source-material on Socrates. Plato and Xenoph…on are treated in election, and there i a comprehensive coverage of other authors down to the Byzantine era, the major omissions being repetitive passages, passages dependent on Plato and Xenophon, and passages which are plainly without historical value. Works presented are Plato, Apology, Crito, Alcibiades I; Xenophon, Apology; Libanius, On the Science of Socrates, Apology. Brief notes and cross-references are appended where necessary.
