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1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 08 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Plato's Greater Hippias: William Sigalis (Socrates), Ray Childs (Hippias). |
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Aristotle's Poetics: Albert A. Anderson, reader and translator. |
| Summary |
Hippias of Elis travels throughout the Greek world practicing and teaching the art of making beautiful speeches. On a rare visit to Athens, he meets Socrates, who questions him about the nature of his art. Socrates is especially curious about how Hippias would define beauty. They agree that beauty makes all beautiful things beautiful, but when Socrates presses him to say precisely what he means, Hippias is unable to deliver such a definition. The more Socrates probes, the more absurd the responses from Hippias become. This is one of Plato's best comedies and one of his finest efforts at posing the philosophical problem of the difference between particular things and universal qualities. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800.
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Truth -- Early works to 1800.
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Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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Greek literature -- Translations into English.
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Hippias, of Elis, active 5th century B.C.
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Sigalis, William.
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Childs, Ray.
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Anderson, Albert A.
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Severens, Michael.
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Aristotle.
Poetics. English.
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Plato.
Hippias major. English.
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hoopla digital.
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Plato's Greater Hippias.
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Aristotle's Poetics.
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| ISBN |
9781518933837 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1518933831 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11711538 |
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