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 in a successful life, and how we may acquire the knowledge that makes for success. This edition contains the first commentary in English on the Greek text for almost a hundred years. The commentary provides the assistance with linguistic, literary and philosophical detail that will enable students and scholars to savour to the full the pleasures of the Protagoras.
| ISBN: | 9780521549691 |
| Publication date: | 4th September 2008 |
| Author: | Plato |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 222 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics |
| Genres: |
Ancient history Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy |