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Anonymous Sat Sep 19 03:22:52 2015 No.7133864 [Reply] [Original]

Two questions:

1.) What's the best English translation for "Symposium"? Should I just stick with the Oxford Classics edition?

2.) What other books are there like the "Symposium," where you have a meeting of men discussing a topic to it's furthest depth?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 03:41:37 2015 No.7133889 The way your post is phrased, it seems as if you've read it already. What exactly are you looking for in a new translation?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 03:42:53 2015 No.7133892 >>7133889 Anything I may have missed reading it back in college with the Oxford Classics

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 03:49:12 2015 No.7133896 Plato or Xenophon? Because, I would read Xenophon's before Plato's

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 03:51:27 2015 No.7133898 >>7133892 Are you even going to remember it from then?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 03:53:48 2015 No.7133900 >>7133898 I still have my self-annotated oxford edition

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 04:00:12 2015 No.7133905 Seth Benardete's translation is most literal and thus closest to expressing the meaning that Plato intended. It also comes with two excellent interpretive essays by Allan Bloom and himself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 04:15:45 2015 No.7133942 Why is he touching his benis?

Anonymous Sat Sep 19 04:31:24 2015 No.7133974

>>7133864
Seconding the recommendation for Seth Benardete's translation at >>7133905, which is the most accurate edition I've read.

There's also Xenophon's Symposium, which contains exactly what you're looking for in a text ostensibly depicting a conversation between men.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 05:52:17 2015 No.7134120 >>7133900 Who the fuck re-reads a book in a different translation?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 05:57:45 2015 No.7134129 >>7134120 Something wrong with that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 06:00:14 2015 No.7134132 >>7133864 1) Symposium is already English so doesn't need translating but some synonyms are "forum", "discussion" and "convention".

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 06:06:18 2015 No.7134140 >>7134120 Why wouldn't you? It's beneficial for both literary and scholary purposes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 06:07:13 2015 No.7134141 >>7134120 Who the fuck looks at an object from more than one angle?

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 19 06:08:36 2015 No.7134144 >>7133864 Phaedrus

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