Plato's "Meno" in Focus

by Plato (Author), JaneM.Day (Editor)

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  1993

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  This book is an introduction for students of Plato's Meno . In a single volume it brings together an English translation of the text; a selection of articles on themes in the dialogue, published between 1965 and 1985; and an introduction setting the Meno in its historical context, opening up the key philosophical issues which the various articles discuss. The interests of readers with little or no knowledge of Greek are maintained throughout the volume. Jane Day's translation is specially aimed at such readers, by preserving more consistency in its Greek terms than is generally found in English translations. It thus provides a more reliable reflection of details in the original. There is also a glossary which briefly introduces some of the key terms and indicates how they are translated. Within the articles, too, Greek words and phrases at various points in the original edition are accompanied or replaced in this reprint by a translation.