Description: This comprehensive reference guide includes over 140 entries on every aspect of Plato's thought.
Review Quotes:
"The editor has assembled a remarkably wide range of contributors, able to cover - as successfully as any team could, within the space of a single volume - the outlines of the complex and fissiparous world of Plato, Platonism, and Platonic interpretation up to the present day. The book represents a unique resource for advanced students and professional scholars alike." --Christopher Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Greek, Durham University, UK
"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers." --A.P. Johnson, Lee University, CHOICE "Gerald Press and his associate editors, Harald Tarrant, Deborah Nails and Francesco Gonzalez, have given us a companion to turn (and return) to for succinct guidance about topics in Plato's philosophy, the intellectual context in which he wrote, and the many different historical and contemporary interpretations of his work . . . Both in overall conception and its individual entries this companion is much to be welcomed . . . The high standard of the contributions and the rich array of entries make this companion an excellent resource for courses on Plato or individual dialogues, while it also has much to offer to anyone who wants a concise and up-to-date introduction to aspects of Plato, his work, or his philosophy." --Albert Joosse, Universität Freiburg, Breisgau, Bryn Mawr Classical Review