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Description. Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith that combines elegance, accuracy, freshness and fluency. Together they offer strikingly varied examples of Plato's critical encounter with the culture and politics of fifth and fourth century Athens.
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The Gorgias and the Protagoras. The Protagoras and the Gorgias are not only the longest, but by general agreement the most important among Plato's ‘Socratic’ dialogues (the quixotic Menexenus – on which more later – is another matter).
Plato, Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras, Malcolm Schofield (ed.), Tom Griffith (tr.), Cambridge UP, 2010, xliv+214pp., $29.99 (pbk), ISBN 9780521546003. Reviewed by C.C.W. Taylor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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Nov 19, 2009 · Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras. Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith that combines...
- Malcolm Schofield
- Tom Griffith
- Cambridge University Press, 2009
Dec 21, 2009 · The Gorgias is a long and impassioned confrontation between Socrates and a succession of increasingly heated interlocutors about political rhetoric as an instrument of political power. The short Menexenus contains a pastiche of celebratory public oratory, illustrating its self-delusions.
The Protagoras and the Gorgias are not only the longest, but by gen- eral agreement the most important among Plato’s ‘Socratic’ dialogues (the quixotic Menexenus – on which more later – is another matter).
