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Plato - Crito (reader, with commentary and vocabulary section)

By Chris Emlyn-Jones

Book information

Publisher
Bristol Classical Press
Year
1999
ISBN
1853994693
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2499014 bytes)
Pages
116\113
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the first time in European thought, a central question: is it right to disobey the state? Socrates' controversial answer in "Crito" has generated much contemporary literature, but no English commentary of the Greek text for seventy-five years. This new edition aims to provide an up-to-date literary and philosophical analysis suitable for a wide range of readers, including those with post-beginners Greek. It represents an ideal introduction, not only to the social and philosophical world of Classical Greece, but also to the personality of one of its greatest thinkers.

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