[B-Greek] Reading The Philosophers in Greek and other extra Biblcal reading

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Mar 1 14:33:51 EST 2009


On Mar 1, 2009, at 2:19 PM, James Ernest wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Suttles, Andrew C. (GRC-DSI0)
> <andrew.c.suttles at nasa.gov> wrote:
>
>> As to Plato, do you know of any "second year" readers,
>
> Used when I was a second-year Greek student:
> Plato: Apology of Socrates and Crito
> with extracts from the Phaedo and Symposium and from Xsenphon's  
> Memorabilia
> Edited by Louis Dyer
> Revised by Thomas Day Seymour
> with a vocabulary
> Caratzas Brothers, New Rochelle, NY 1979
>
> --Haven't checked to see whether it's still available.

This is evidently only available at second-hand; it's really one of  
the more useful Greek texts with commentary for students.

> I also have:
>
> Plato's Phaedo
> edited with introduction and notes by John Burnet
> Clarendon

This is good, but the notes are more useful for the student of  
philosophy than for the student of Greek (in my opinion).

> In Burnet, the notes occupy the second half of the book. In
> Dyer-Seymour, they're on the page bottoms. I suspect there are scads
> of old "school" text of Plato and the other main classical authors . .
> . could probably find dozens from the 1800s in Google books . . .
> handier to buy reprints.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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