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Great Dialogues Of Plato (Paperback)
Plato; Translated by W.H.D. Rouse; Introduction by Matthew S Santirocco
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"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."--Emerson
"The Republic" and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek
philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most
important single body of writing in the history of philosophy.
Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in
these dialogues, which magnificently express the glowing spirit of
Platonic philosophy.
Translated by W. H. D. Rouse, one of the world's most outstanding
classical scholars and translator of Homer's "The Odyssey" and "The
Iliad," this volume features the complete texts of seven of Plato's
most revered works.
"In Rouse's pages Socrates' strength of mind, his dedication to
philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with
something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient
Greeks."--"Time"
Horace's first three books of "Odes," published together in 23
B.C., are a masterpiece of Augustan literature and the culmination
of classical lyric. Matthew Santirocco provides the first new
critical approach to them in English in more than two decades.
Drawing on recent works on ancient and modern poetry books and
using several contemporary critical methodologies, Santirocco
reveals the "Odes" both as individual poems and as components in a
larger poetic design. His reading of Horace demonstrates that the
ensemble is itself an important context for understanding and
appreciating the poetry.
Reconstructing the history of the ancient poetry book, both Greek
and Roman, Santirocco challenges certain common assumptions about
its origin and development. He argues that true parallels for the
"Odes" are not to be found in the other Augustan books, which are
relatively homogeneous in content and form, but in the
heterogeneous collections of Hellenistic writers.
"Odes I-III" comprise eighty-eight poems in twelve different
meters, and in tone and topic they vary widely. Avoiding the two
extremes of past scholarship, which either has searched for a
single underlying unity or else has denied any meaningful design,
Santirocco uncovers a variety of both static and dynamic structures
and shows their relevance to the literary interpretation of the
poems at all levels. Ultimately, the composition of a poem and the
disposition of the group are shown to be analogous activities.
"Odes I-III" do not constitute a medley of discrete poems but,
instead, approximate the unity of a single ode.
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