Date
10/13/20
"Plato's Menexenus" is Emeritus Professor of Classics David Sansone's new work (Cambridge University Press). The book is part of the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, which provides texts and commentaries on works of Greek and Latin literature.
Emeritus Professor of Classics David Sansone has published a new commentary on Plato's Menexenus by Cambridge University Press. Here Plato challenges his readers by depicting an elderly Socrates as an enthusiastic student of rhetoric who has learned from his teacher Aspasia to recite an inspiring funeral oration, an oration that conspicuously refers to events occurring after the deaths of Socrates and Aspasia, an oration that Aspasia, as a woman and a non-Athenian, was not eligible to deliver over the Athenians who died in war.