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Plato: Gorgias, Menexenus, Protagoras

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Edited by
Malcolm Schofield
, University of Cambridge
Translated by
Tom Griffith
Published 2009

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Presented in the popular Cambridge Texts format are three early Platonic dialogues in a new English translation by Tom Griffith that combines elegance, accuracy, freshness and fluency. Together they offer strikingly varied examples of Plato's critical encounter with the culture and politics of fifth and fourth century Athens. Nowhere does he engage more sharply and vigorously with the presuppositions of democracy. The Gorgias is a long and impassioned confrontation between Socrates and a succession of increasingly heated interlocutors about political…

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  • Proven translator and world-class editor
  • A very student-friendly selection of three central Platonic dialogues
  • Another strong addition to the Classical strand of the Cambridge Texts series

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