Selected Dialogues

By Plato

Book Overview

Benjamin Jowett's translations of Plato have long been classics in their own right. In this volume, Professor Hayden Pelliccia has revised Jowett's renderings of five key dialogues, giving us a modern... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006YWQD4
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Franklin Library
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very well done translation

The review criticizing Jowett's translation of the Republic is irrelevant for two reasons. First, this isn't the Republic. Second, it's not really Jowett's translation: it's a substantial revision of Jowett's translation of some of Plato's most widely read dialogues (Ion, Phaedrus, Symposium, Apology, Protagoras). Simply put, though I'm no fit judge of the translation's fidelity to Plato, I found this to be the most fluid, delightful rendering of Plato that I've ever come across. It is a masterpiece of literary nuance -- representing Socrates as the witty, weird, sometimes obnoxious, often poetic soul he must have been. Of course this is greatly due to Jowett's lovely prose style, but Pelliccia deserves laurels for so sensitively updating and de-Victorianizing the work. I've compared this revision to Jowett's original and find this to be much improved. Snap it up.

Very Enlightening

Great piece of philosophical literature. Well annotated and translated. Excellent, 5 stars