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Plato's Phaedrus | |||
2003 • 0-941051-54-4 • paper • 140 pages • 6 x 9 • $10.95 A modern translation of Plato's Phaedrus for college students. With notes, a complete introduction and interpretative essay. | About the Author | Table of Contents | Review | | |||
Description Translation in English, with notes, glossary, appendices, interpretive essay and introduction. This text includes new insights into the nature of Greek love, including rarely seen illustrations (stone carving and vase painting). The Phaedrus is Plato's least political dialogue. It's central themes - rhetoric, love, the soul - recur throughout Plato's writings, but philosophically, poetically, and topograhically, the Phaedrus is a world apart. -- Stephen Scully, from the Introduction.
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Stephen Scully is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Homer and the Sacred City, as well as numerous essays and articles on Homer, Attic Tragedy, and Virgil.
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Introduction Translator’s Note Outline Phaedrus Glossary
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This is a fine translation, both fluent and accurate. It captures the range of tonalities of the original in elegant English that is neither stiffly formal nor cheaply colloquial….The supplementary matter is appropriate and useful. The introduction is crisp and clear, the interpretive essay illuminating…Scully has done a sound and serious job of translating and annotating for the general reader. Above all, his translation is excellent in respect to style and clarity: really a pleasure to read. -- David Konstan, Brown University
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Plato's Phaedrus
