The Symposium and The Phaedo

Raymond Larson's excellent translation of the dialogues that deal, respectively, with the nature of eros and the immortality of the soul are supplemented by careful annotation, a fine introduction, a list of principal dates in the life of Plato, and a selected bibliography.

Introduction vii

principal dates xxiii

The Symposium 1

The Phaedo 53

bibliography 115

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the development of Western philosophy.

Raymond Larson is the translator of The Symposium and The Phaedo, published by Wiley.