The Gorgias of Plato (Revised Text, Exegetical Notes, New Translation) - Hardcover
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Fifth Century Athens, in its Golden Age, was at once the most powerful and the most democratic of the Greek city-states: this precarious combination called into being a new art, the art of oratory, whereby the wealth and prominence of a political career could be won by mere speech. Itinerant teachers of these new techniques of persuasion bedazzled up-and-coming men with the prospect of power and...
Kenneth Quandt (Ph. D. Classics, Berkeley, 1979) writes commentaries on the Greek text of Plato's Dialogues (Republic, Phaedrus, Laches, Gorgias, Symposium) and has translated books by Monique Dixsaut, Reinhold Knoll, and Norbert Bloessner.
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