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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958888203321

Autore

Plato

Titolo

Plato's Protagoras : translation, commentary, and appendices / / translated and edited by James A. Arieti and Roger M. Barrus

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010

ISBN

979-82-16-30089-2

1-282-52229-9

9786612522291

1-4422-0493-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (155 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ArietiJames A

BarrusRoger Milton

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Sophists (Greek philosophy)

Virtue

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Protagoras; Appendix A: Callias' House; Appendix B: On Translating; Appendix C: Simonides PMG 542; Appendix D: Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations and Plato's Protagoras; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Arieti and Barrus' new edition of Plato's Protagoras provides a rigorously clear and accurate translation that communicates Plato's puns, metaphors, figures of speech, and other verbal techniques naturally, allowing scholars to feel the full scope of Plato's rhetoric. This new edition confronts and discusses the critical linguistic choices made in rendering difficult or obscure terms into an easily readable and understandable rendition. The commentary, introduction, glossary, and appendices elucidate the dialogue's many issues, especially those concerning rhetoric, education, and literary inte