The Trial and Death of Socrates
by Plato
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Author: PlatoTranslator: John M. Cooper
Translator: G. M. A. Grube
Editor: G. M. A. Grube
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Greek (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-06
ISBN: 0872205541
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
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Book Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
Plato was notoriously suspicious of the poets as he seems to have believed that they are only imitating the world around us - the objects of which are themselves a kind of 'imitation' of the forms. Yet plato is the first in line of a number of philosophers who produced literary masterpieces and many think that he could have been a brilliant dramatist in his own right. One thinks of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre in modern times for recent examples of literary philosophers. Plato two works "Apology" and "Phaedo" are brilliant as drama and literature as well as philosophy.
This is a 4 CD recording and five of Britains's leading actors have been drafted in - Bruce Alexander, Jamie Glover, Neville Jason, David Timson and Gordon Griffin.
The only small quibble that I have with these excellent CDs is that the translation differed from my Penguin editions of Plato's works thus making it impossible to read the text at the same time as listening to the recording.
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