Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds
ISBN: 9780801485749 | 0801485746
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 10/1/1998
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This is the only collection of the Platonic dialogues that also includes the Clouds, a work that is fundamental for understanding the thought of Socrates in relation to the Athenian political community and to Greek poetry.
Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (the platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges agains... MORE
Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (the platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges agains... MORE
| Translators' Note | 7 | (2) | |||
| Introduction | 9 | (32) | |||
| Modern Liberaliem, Marxism, and the Socratic Alternative | 9 | (3) | |||
| Plato's Euthyphro | 12 | (4) | |||
| Plato's Apology of Socrates | ... MORE | (8) | |||
| Plato's Crito | 24 | (5) | |||
| Aristophanes' Clouds | 29 | (12) | |||
| 41 | (22) | |||
| 63 | (36) | |||
| 99 | (16) | |||
| 115 | (62) | |||
| Selected Bibliography | 177 |
Thomas G. West is Professor of Politics, University of Dallas, and a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy Grace Starry West is Associate Professor and Chairman of Classics, University of Dallas
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