"A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but appear when they are really needed for comprehension and are truly informative. And the introduction admirably presents both ...(展开全部)

Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades, the brilliant but (eventually) treacherous politician. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the benefits of desire and its rol...(展开全部)

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Christopher Gill.

This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by the dramatic form of the Platonic dialogue, a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint. Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the p...(展开全部)

柏拉图（约前427—前347），古希腊哲学家，也是西方最伟大的哲学家和思想家之一，一生著述颇丰。他的对话体著作文笔生动、富有戏剧性，不仅是优秀的哲学著作，亦是优美的文学作品。 本书涉及柏拉图思想体系的各个方面，包括哲学、伦理、教育、文艺、政治等内容，最主要的是探讨理想国家的问题。对话录里柏拉图以苏格拉底之口通过与其他人对话的方式设计了一个真、善、美相统一的政体，即可以达到公正的理想国。在他的理想国里统治者必须是哲学家，他认为现存的政治都是坏的，人类的真正出路在于哲学家掌握政权，也只有真正的哲学家才能拯救当时城邦所处的危机。这种信念构成了柏拉图成熟的政治哲学体系的核心。

柏拉图(约公元前427年-公元前347年)，古希腊伟大的哲学家，也是全部西方哲学乃至整个西方文化最伟大的哲学家和思想家之一，他和老师苏格拉底，学生亚里士多德并称为希腊三贤。另有其创造或发展的概念包括：柏拉图思想、柏拉图主义、柏拉图式爱情等。柏拉图的主要作品为对话录，其中绝大部分对话都有苏格拉底出场。

This is the first balanced introduction to Plato's work to bringing Plato himself alive, as well as discussing the importance of his works. In so doing, it allows a better understanding of who he was, what sort of world he inhabited, why his works were important in his own day, and why, two thousand years after his death, they are still regarded as so significant. By also descr...(展开全部)

This is the first balanced introduction to Plato's work to bringing Plato himself alive, as well as discussing the importance of his works. In so doing, it allows a better understanding of who he was, what sort of world he inhabited, why his works were important in his own day, and why, two thousand years after his death, they are still regarded as so significant. By also descr...(展开全部)

柏拉图（约前427—前347），古希腊哲学家，也是西方最伟大的哲学家和思想家之一，一生著述颇丰。他的对话体著作文笔生动、富有戏剧性，不仅是优秀的哲学著作，亦是优美的文学作品。 本书涉及柏拉图思想体系的各个方面，包括哲学、伦理、教育、文艺、政治等内容，最主要的是探讨理想国家的问题。对话录里柏拉图以苏格拉底之口通过与其他人对话的方式设计了一个真、善、美相统一的政体，即可以达到公正的理想国。在他的理想国里统治者必须是哲学家，他认为现存的政治都是坏的，人类的真正出路在于哲学家掌握政权，也只有真正的哲学家才能拯救当时城邦所处的危机。这种信念构成了柏拉图成熟的政治哲学体系的核心。