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Authors: Benjamin E. Jowett, Plato
ISBN-13: 9780023607608, ISBN-10: 0023607602
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: January 1956
Edition: 2nd Edition
This new translation of Plato's dialogue on love avoids the cumbersome locutions of Victorian versions and presents Plato's ancient drinking party in a vigorous contemporary idiom. The character of Socrates emerges with unexpected with and humor, adding new dimensions to his familiar irony.