Author

Contributions

  • Lamb, W. R. M. b. 1882. - Contributor

Publication

1996 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

133,750 words, Guess

Page Count

535 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number14009137

Classifications

  • LCCPA3612 .P6 1914

Alternate Titles

  • Lysis ; Symposium ; Gorgias.
  • Symposium.
  • Gorgias.

Description

The great Athenian philosopher Plato was born in 427 BCE and lived to be eighty. Acknowledged masterpieces among his works are the Symposium, which explores love in its many aspects, from physical desire to pursuit of the beautiful and the good, and the Republic, which concerns righteousness and also treats education, gender, society, and slavery.

Subjects

Genres

  • Early works to 1800.

Series Statement

  • The Loeb classical library -- 166.

Other Editions

  • Lysis: Symposium ; GorgiasHarvard University Press1996-01-01
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