Hayden Pellicia has substantially revised Benjamin Jowet's classic Victorian era translations of five of Plato's richest and most entertaining dialogues - Ion, Protagorus, Phaedrus, Symposium and Apology.
Author Biography
Dr. Hayden Pelliccia is associate professor and chair of classics at Cornell University. Plato (c. 428 B.C. -- 347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates. He founded the Academy in Athens, the prototype of the modern university, whose most famous member was Aristotle.
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"Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
