Opera: Volume IV: Clitopho, Respublica, Timaeus, Critias (Hardcover)

~ (Author), J. Burnet (Editor)

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"...a unified project, and executed with notable editorial consistency....unless there are major papyrus finds, or the study of ancient Greek revives, it is unlikely that the world will ever have a better text of Plato than this."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"The task of producing a new Plato is enormous, and the editors have greatly advanced our knowledge of his textual tradition."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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(Euth., Apol., Crit., Ph.; Crat. Tht., Soph., Polit.) Edited by J. Burnet. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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• Hardcover: 554 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 22, 1922)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198145446
• ISBN-13: 978-0198145448
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive Classical Text, December 4, 2003

By	J. Duvoisin "politeia" (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Opera: Volume I: Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophista, Politicus (v. 1) (Hardcover)

These Oxford editions are the definitive Greek texts for Plato's entire body of work. They are the culmination of a vast tradition of scholarly erudition. They include not only a fine edition of the texts, but also an extensive critical apparatus in the footnotes in which alternate readings adopted by other editors are listed. In effect, in this edition, you get the whole history of all other editions of Plato.

Oxford is in the process of putting out a new set of re-edited Plato's. These represent the latest trends in scholarly thought on Plato. However they do not represent any new discoveries--they are only a new set of editorial decisions by a new editor, but the same old material. The new set look quite good so far, but the older edition (By John Burnet, or Ioannes Burnet in Latin) are not rendered obsolete or out of date by this one. My personal preference is for the older Burnet edition.