Plato: Republic

The Protagoras is one of Platos most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day among them the sophist Protagoras. In flamboyant displays of both rhetoric and dialectic Socrates and Protagoras try to out-argue one another. Their arguments range widely from political theory to literary criticism from education to the nature of cowardice; but in view throughout this literary and philosophical masterpiece are the questions of what part knowledge plays in a successful life and how we may acquire the knowledge that makes for success. This edition contains the first commentary in English on the Greek text for almost a hundred years. The commentary provides the assistance with linguistic literary and philosophical detail that will enable students and scholars to savour to the full the pleasures of the Protagoras.