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Selected Dialogues of Plato | 
 enlarge | Authors: Plato, Trans., Dr. Hayden Pelliccia
Creators: Dr Hayden Pelliccia, Benjamin Jowett
Publisher: Modern Library
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 248840
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Pages: 352
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 1
ISBN: 0679602283
Dewey Decimal Number: 184
EAN: 9780679602286
ASIN: 0679602283
Publication Date: October 2000
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Product Description
Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key
dialogues, giving us a modern Plato faithful to both Jowett's best features and Plato's own masterly style.
Gathered here are many of Plato's liveliest and richest texts. Ion takes up the question of poetry and introduces the Socratic method. Protagoras discusses poetic interpretation and shows why cross-examination is the best way to get at the truth. Phaedrus takes on the nature of rhetoric, psychology, and love, as does the famous Symposium. Finally, Apology gives us Socrates' art of persuasion put to the ultimate test--defending his own life.
Pelliccia's new Introduction to this volume clarifies its contents and addresses the challenges of translating Plato freshly and accurately. In its combination of accessibility and depth, Selected Dialogues of Plato is the ideal introduction to one of the key thinkers of all time.
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 Very Enlightening December 28, 2002
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Great piece of philosophical literature. Well annotated and translated. Excellent, 5 stars
 Not a good translation December 31, 2007
William C. Lloyd
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Jowett translation of "Republic" is not good. I struggled with it in college [in the '60s], and never knew why it was such a chore until I read Allan Bloom's great translation, and his introduction to his great translation. John Wild explained further why the Jowett translation is so "off," in his "Plato and His Enemies and the Theory of Natural Law" -- which is, unfortunately, out of print. But go for Bloom's translation, it is wonderful.
Very well done translation February 25, 2008
William Miller (Austin, TX)
The review criticizing Jowett's translation of the Republic is irrelevant for two reasons. First, this isn't the Republic. Second, it's not really Jowett's translation: it's a substantial revision of Jowett's translation of some of Plato's most widely read dialogues (Ion, Phaedrus, Symposium, Apology, Protagoras).
Simply put, though I'm no fit judge of the translation's fidelity to Plato, I found this to be the most fluid, delightful rendering of Plato that I've ever come across. It is a masterpiece of literary nuance -- representing Socrates as the witty, weird, sometimes obnoxious, often poetic soul he must have been. Of course this is greatly due to Jowett's lovely prose style, but Pelliccia deserves laurels for so sensitively updating and de-Victorianizing the work. I've compared this revision to Jowett's original and find this to be much improved. Snap it up.
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