| #5192 in Books | imusti | 1989-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x5.25 x.50l,.25 | File type: PDF | 109 pages | Hackett Pub Co Inc||43 of 45 people found the following review helpful.| The ladder of love|By stephen liem|In this review I will compare 5 translations of Plato's Symposium: 1. Alexander Nehamas & Paul Woodruff (Hackett Pub Co, 1989). 2. Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 2001). 3. R.E. Allen (Yale University Press, 1993). 4. Shelley's Translation (St Augustine Press, 2002) 5. Sharon (Focus Publishing/R.Pullins Co, 1
A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction admirably presents both basic information and a sense of current scholarly opinion. --S. G. Nugent, Princeton Un...
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