Gorgias : a revised text
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Gorgias : a revised text
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990
- : pbk
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Text in Greek with English commentary
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This paperback edition of Dodds's standard edition of Plato's Gorgias is designed to meet the needs both of undergraduates and professional scholars. The text and apparatus criticus are based on a fresh survey of the evidence: two major manuscripts are here for the first time fully collated, and account has been taken both of new papyri and of the exceptionally rich indirect tradition. The text is supplemented by a full introduction giving details
on the subject and structure of the dialogue, its characters and intended historical setting, the real date of composition, and the background to Plato and Athens at the time of composition. The commentary, besides explaining Platonic usages and discussing textual points, aims to treat the historical, philosphical,
and literary questions which arise from the text.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The dialogue: subject and structure
- personages and period
- date of composition - the relative date, the absolute date
- Plato and Athens. Part 2 The evidence for the text: the medieval manuscripts - the first family B T W and P, the second family F, the Byzantine recensions
- the Papyri
- ancient commentaries - Olympiodorus, the scholia
- the indirect tradition.
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