Stanley Lombardo
Birth date: January 01, 1943
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Plato is always a good writer. Socrates is always worth understanding. This one short dialog would be the philosophical work I would suggest everyone to start with if they're interested in philosophy (wisdom, what we can 'know' about reality). The conflict between the known and the knowing (the b...
Plato and Aristotle between them not only laid the foundations for Western philosophy, many would argue they divided it neatly between them: Plato the one who with his "Allegory of the Cave" gave birth to the idea of an existence beyond our senses, giving a rational gloss to mysticism. Aristotle, th...
Interesting...confusing...parts of this were helpful for understanding Greek myth but not as much as I had hoped. Works and Days was entertaining and fairly easy to comprehend. Theogony was mostly dry and often-times assumed that readers had knowledge of the story backgrounds. I might try this one a...
Has been on my TBR list like forever.
Having finally read this from cover to cover (with the exception of The Republic to which I went to Allan Bloom’s translation) one cannot help but feel some sense of achievement. The purist in me loves that the entire corpus of Plato’s works is easily accessible in one volume. But I wouldn’t recom...
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