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Published in: Society 1/2024

12-09-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy

Oxford University Press, 2023, 240 pp., ISBN: 978-0197564752

Author: Richard Kraut

Published in: Society | Issue 1/2024

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Robin Waterfield is a prolific translator of major works of Herodotus, Euripides, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Plutarch. He is also the author of books on Greek and Roman history, including, most recently, the trial of Socrates. He has now added to his accomplishments an engaging and accessible biography of Plato. This is, in fact, the only book-length biography of Plato in English available to the general public; as Waterfield notes in his preface, “the last dedicated biography in English of any length was published in 1839, when B. B. Edwards translated the Life of Plato by Wilhelm Tennemann.” …
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Title
Robin Waterfield, Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
Oxford University Press, 2023, 240 pp., ISBN: 978-0197564752
Author
Richard Kraut
Publication date
12-09-2023
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 1/2024
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00902-4

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