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Plato's Symposium | |||
1998 • 0-941051-56-0 • paper • 80 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $10.95 | About the Author | Table of Contents | Reviews | | |||
Description An engaging new translation into English of Plato’s important dialogue on the nature of love, including notes and an introductory essay.
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Avi Sharon has taught Classics in New York, Boston and Athens, Greece. He is active as a translator of ancient Greek, Italian and Hebrew. And has published in such journals as "Arion", "Partisan Review" and "Dialogos". He is the 1996 recipient of the Alexander Onassis Fellowship for scholars of Greek.
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Introduction
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Elegant, lucid, and stylish. -- Roger Scruton, London University The Symposium challenges the translator who is also a poet in its range of styles which is unique among the Platonic dialogues. Not only dues the translator have to mimic the distinct style of the narrator, Apollodoros, and the seven symposiasts…he has to mind and represent the action in this the most dramatic of the Platonic dialogues. Sharon's translation meets these challenges and is a brilliant recovery of the style and drama of the Symposium. I know of no other translation that is so appropriately various in the styles adopted by and for the speakers or which is so attentive to the drama of this dialogue which celebrates a tragic victory. -- Diskin Clay, Duke University
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Plato's Symposium 
