El Protágoras es uno de los diálogos más coloridos de Platón. La puesta en escena del encuentro entre Sócrates y el sofista. en un ambiente que refleja de manera imperdible la elite intelectual ateniense del siglo V a....
In his brilliant dialogue, Symposium, Plato presents an imaginary dinner party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socrates and the most popular Athenian of his day, star-athlete Alcibiades. The sequence of dazzling speeches...
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Platos best-known work, and has proven to be one of the worlds most influential works of philo...
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man-for this reason, ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title...
An award-winning public reader of Homer discusses poetry and the nature of performance with the probing and insightful Socrates in Platoâs immortal dialogue.
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rheto...
In 399 BC Socrates was prosecuted, convicted, sentenced to death and executed. These events were the culmination of a long philosophical career, a career in which, without writing a word, he established himself as the figure whom all philosophers of the...
2018 Reprint of 1875 Second Edition. The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, comprises Book VIII of Plato's Republic. It is written as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, narrated by the latter. Plato has...
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The trial of Socrates refers to the trial and the subsequent execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Socrates was tried and convicted by the courts of democratic Athens on a charge of corrupting the youth and disbelieving in the ancestra...
Pese a ser la comedia más corta de toda la producción de Plauto, Gorgojo es una de las más vivaces desde el punto de vista cómico. El parásito que urde el engaño para rescatar a la joven amada por su amo lleva...