{"product_id":"platos-symposium-and-phaedrus-paperback","title":"Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Sachs\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003ePlato\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Joe Sachs is a national treasure. His brilliant translations from the Greek, spanning works from Homer to Aristotle, have long enriched scholars and students alike. He crowns those achievements with this exquisite rendering of two of Plato's most beautiful dialogues, with an introduction that evidences his deft ability to drill down to 'the thing itself.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Sheehan, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Stanford University\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSymposium\u003c\/i\u003e are Plato's two dialogues\u003cbr\u003eabout \u003ci\u003eEros--\u003c\/i\u003ethat is, desirous longing. In these new translations by\u003cbr\u003eformer St. John's College tutor Joe Sachs, the reader imaginatively becomes a\u003cbr\u003emember, if a silent one, of the conversations Socrates has with his companions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile both dialogues are \u003ci\u003eabout \u003c\/i\u003elove, they differ in intriguing\u003cbr\u003eand important ways. The conversation of the \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus \u003c\/i\u003etakes place in the\u003cbr\u003ecountryside and that of the \u003ci\u003eSymposium \u003c\/i\u003ein Athens. In the \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus \u003c\/i\u003eonly\u003cbr\u003eSocrates and Phaedrus are present; in the \u003ci\u003eSymposium \u003c\/i\u003emany participate in\u003cbr\u003ethe drinking party. But in both, Socrates presents singularly abiding images: \u003cbr\u003eThe winged horses and chariot in the \u003ci\u003ePhaedrus\u003c\/i\u003e; the ladder of love in the\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSymposium.\u003c\/i\u003e These compelling images attract and move the reader to ask\u003cbr\u003equestions of the dialogues, which in their unique ways seem to reply. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe interplay of the two texts may spark an unfolding in the reader's thinking\u003cbr\u003eabout love, but for the dialectical motion that must\u003cbr\u003eoccur between the speeches and between the lines of Plato's texts, the reader\u003cbr\u003emust do the work, provoked, invited, and assisted by what they contain. The context for our thinking includes in\u003cbr\u003eone case the subject of tragedy and comedy, in the other the nature of rhetoric\u003cbr\u003eand writing, but it is philosophy, and not poetry or politics, that persistently\u003cbr\u003eclaims the center of attention. The dialogues themselves seem as different as\u003cbr\u003enight from day, as urbane wit from rustic charm--but do they point to opposing\u003cbr\u003eor converging attitudes toward erotic love? \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoe Sachs\u003c\/b\u003e taught for thirty years in the Great Books program at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. He has translated Homer's\u003ci\u003e Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e (Paul Dry Books, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e (Paul Dry Books, 2014); Aristotle's \u003ci\u003ePhysics, Metaphysics, On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection, Nicomachean Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetics\u003c\/i\u003e; and Plato's \u003ci\u003eTheaetetus, Republic, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSocrates and the Sophists\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Annapolis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 27, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47346264080633,"sku":"9781589881778","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/cGV3L1FzaHp2cVE2dzEvemxpQklOUT09.webp?v=1769749809","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/platos-symposium-and-phaedrus-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}