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Symposium of Xenophon of Athens: A New Critical Edition with a Facing-Page English Translation
| Author: | Jackson, Donald F | |
| Year: | 2014 | |
| Pages: | 140 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-4350-9 978-0-7734-4350-1 | |
| Price: | $139.95 | |
This work is a critical text of The Symposium, written by Xenophon of Athens in the fourth century B.C. Each page of Greek text is faced with a contemporary English translation which richly embodies the original meaning of the author.
Reviews
“Xenophon’s genteel Symposium is no Satyricon. Yet it is outrageously homosocial and goes far beyond the subtle homo-eroticism of Plato’s dialogue of the same name... Symposium is the eighth in the series of
bi-lingual editions of Xenophon’s works published by The Edwin Mellen Press.
-Diana Robin, Professor Emerita of Classics,
University of New Mexico
Scholar-in-Residence,
Newberry Library, Chicago
-Diana Robin, Professor Emerita of Classics,
University of New Mexico
Scholar-in-Residence,
Newberry Library, Chicago
Table of Contents
Foreword by Diana Robin
Introduction
Establishing the text
The manuscripts
The papyri
Sigla
Text and Translation of Symposium
Proper names in the Apparatus Criticus
Critical Bibliography
Introduction
Establishing the text
The manuscripts
The papyri
Sigla
Text and Translation of Symposium
Proper names in the Apparatus Criticus
Critical Bibliography