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'Excellent: very clear; presents a distinctive view of Plato; ideal for students beginning to study Plato.' G. Wall, Middlesex Polytechnic

'it is ideally suited to be used by students alongside their reading of the Plato texts, and therefore is valuable for undergraduate courses.' Richard Norman, University of Kent

'There are an enormous number of books on Plato but hardly any offer a short, reliable and up-to-date introduction to his thought. David Melling's book therefore fills a real gap and could certainly be recommended to beginners...a book well-worht reading. Anyone seeking to find out about Plato would do well to start off with it.' Anne Sheppard ___THES___

`David Melling's book is an excellent propylaeum for the temple. It detains us long enough to follow its own contours and prepares us for the shapes within, while making us eager to be away beyond.' Barrington Jones, ___Times Educational Supplement___

`David Melling's book...fills a real gap and could certainly be recommended to neginners...this is book well worht reading. Anyone seeking to find out about Plato would do well to start off with it.' ___Times Higher Education Supplement___

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This incisive book fills the longstanding need for a sound, reliable, and balanced guide to the whole of Plato's philosophical work. Melling describes the different stages in Plato's philosophical development, introduces his different methods and styles of philosophy, and explains why the
debates were important then and what sense we can make of them now. Against the background of the ancient Greek world, Melling illuminates Plato the man, his writings, and, above all, why his ideas should be considered important two thousand years after his death.

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Plato was born about 427 BCE into an aristocratic Athenian family, a wealthy household living at what had been for some four centuries the cultural hub of the Greek world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
frugal community, armoured combat, systematic questioning, intelligible realm, intelligible realities, greatest kinds, verbal combat, early dialogues Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ideal State, Basic Polis, Idea of the Good, Form of Beauty, Third Man, Divided Line, Cosmic Soul, Eleatic Stranger, Nocturnal Council, Form of Bigness, Idea of Good, Plato's Athens, Form of X-ness, Idea of Beauty, Form of Difference, Idea of Mountain, Idea of Z-ness, Plato's Socrates New!
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