Empire and the Ends of Politics

This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' Funeral Oration (from Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War).

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Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' Funeral Oration

Plato
Translated, with Introduction and Glossary, by Susan Collins and Devin Stauffer

1999 - 64 pp.
Imprint: Focus, Series: Focus Philosophical Library

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This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' Funeral Oration (from Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War).

Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.


Reviews:

"This volume makes available for the first time in truly accurate translations what is perhaps the greatest debate in classical political theory. The translations are models of meticulous fidelity combined with readability, and are far and away the best that have ever been made of these two gems of classical political philosophy."
     —Thomas L. Pangle, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto


About the Authors:

Susan Collins is a political theorist and Associate Professor of Political Science at Notre Dame University. She teaches the history of political thought, and her research focuses on classical thought, the intersection of ethics and politics, contemporary efforts to use Aristotle's thought in understanding and evaluating the problems of liberalism, and the classical alternatives to modern theories of justice.

Devin Stauffer is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in classical and early modern political thought. He has published several books on Plato and the translation Empire and the Ends of Politics with Susan Collins. He has previously taught at Kenyon College and St. John's College.