Name: Protagoras
ISBN: 9780872200944

Stanley Lombardo

Plato

Presents the translation of a dialogue on virtue, wisdom, and the nature of sophistic teaching. This title provides an introduction that illuminates the dialogue's perennial interest, its Athenian political background, and the particular difficulties and ironic nuances of its argument.

Protagoras

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All the rivers flow together into this chasm and flow out of it again. And each river comes to be like the kind of earth through which it flows. The cause of all the streams flowing out from here, and flowing inside, is that this liquid has no base and no foundation. So it oscillates and surges back and forth, and the air and the wind around the liquid do the same. For they follow along with the liquid, both when it rushes towards the other side of the earth and when it rushes towards our side. 

Meno

Donald

I read this after listening to a lecture by Leo Strauss about it. The beautiful and brief dialogue about geometry is one of my favorite things written by Plato.

(Question - the word virtue comes from the Latin virtus. What word is used in the original Greek? Arete?)