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Book SynopsisPlato's Symposium is the most literary of all his works and one which all students of classics are likely to want to read. Sir Kenneth Dover provides here a sympathetic and modern edition of the kind that is long overdue.
Trade Review'This commentary … does three things superbly. It explains Plato's Greek punctiliously, especially the less familiar constructions, particles, and words that are often loosely or wrongly translated. With a razor's sharpness it cuts through sloppy or faulty logic in Plato's Greek. And it provides the necessary background material, whether historical, literary, sexual, or social.' Greece & Rome
' … few books can have given in three pages so informative and at the same time so provocative an account of Plato's philosophy.' The Times Educational Supplement
'This is a tight-packed, authoritative, but readable edition.' J.A.C.T. Bulletin
Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Introduction: 1. Eros; 2. Homosexuality; 3. Philosophy; 4. Historical basis; 5. Date of composition; 6. Symposia; 7. Encomia; 8. Textual transmission; 9. Bibliography; The Symposium; Commentary; Indexes to the introduction and commentary; Appendix 1. Disagreements with Burnet's edition; Appendix 2. Proper names; Appendix 3. Greek words; Appendix 4. General.
