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THE ATLAS OF THE CAVE AND THE SUN
Jowett's Plato
1871
nature
The complete dialogues appear in English prose of high Victorian dignity, and become for a century the way the Anglophone world hears Plato speak.
When a line from this room sounds like scripture, that is usually Jowett's ear rather than Plato's Greek. The app quotes him and says so.
rhymes with
sephirahhod
whyA translation that became the memory of a text.
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1871 · jowett · english plato
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