Plato's 'Gorgias'

• Grant number: 10/01791-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books
• Start date: June 01, 2010
• End date: May 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Classical Literatures
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Rossi Nunes Lopes
• Grantee: Daniel Rossi Nunes Lopes
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo

Abstract

This work includes (i) the translation of the Plato's Gorgias dialogue into Portuguese from the John Burnet's edition of the Greek text (Oxford Classical Texts); (ii) an introductory essay, in which I analyze the interface between dialogue and comedy and tragedy in the point of view of the characters' construction, since Plato refers to Epicarmus and Euripides in the philosophical drama; and (iii) notes and commentaries (philosophical, historical, linguistic and/or literary ones) that follow step by step the dialogue's argumentation. (AU)