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Plato: Menexenus (Paperback)
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Plato: Menexenus (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
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Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an
enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher
Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration, an oration that
conspicuously refers to events occurring after the deaths of
Socrates and Aspasia, an oration that Aspasia, as a woman and a
non-Athenian, was not eligible to deliver over the Athenians who
died in war. This commentary, the first in English in over 100
years, assists the modern reader in confronting Plato's challenge.
The Introduction sets the dialogue in the context of the
traditional Athenian funeral oration and of Plato's ongoing
critique of contemporary rhetoric. The Commentary, which is well
suited to the needs and interests of intermediate students of
Classical Greek, provides guidance on grammatical and historical
matters, while allowing the student to appreciate Plato's mastery
of Greek prose style and critique of democratic ideology.
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