Table of Contents

Introduction vii

principal dates xxiii

The Symposium 1

The Phaedo 53

bibliography 115

About the Author

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.