Plato: Protagoras
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The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and dialectic, Socrates and Protagoras try to out-argue one another. Their arguments range widely, from political theory to literary criticism, from education to the nature of cowardice; but in view throughout this literary and philosophical masterpiece are the questions of what part knowledge plays…
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Key features
- New edition of what is arguably Plato's most entertaining dialogue
- Offers students and scholars help with all the literary, linguistic and philosophical aspects of the dialogue
- Introduction sets the dialogue in its wider intellectual context
About the book
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511813023
- Series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
- Subjects Classical Literature,Classical Philosophy,Classical Studies,Philosophy
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 13 October 2008
- ISBN: 9780521840446
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 138 mm
- Weight: 0.41kg
- Page extent: 222 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 29 September 2008
- ISBN: 9780521549691
- Dimensions (mm): 216 x 138 mm
- Weight: 0.31kg
- Page extent: 222 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 28 May 2018
- ISBN: 9780511813023
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