Cebes’ Tablet: With Introduction, Notes, Vocabulary and Grammatical Questions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Richard Parsons

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0331576961 ISBN 13: 9780331576962

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore Cebes’ Tablet through a scholar’s lens—unfold the work, its history, and its guiding questions.

This introduction surveys the origins, editions, and manuscript evidence behind Cebes’ Tablet, and explains how the text has been read and edited over centuries. It lays out the structure of the work, from the main dialogue to the sections on learning, discipline, and the path to true knowledge. What you’ll find inside:

• A clear overview of the text’s editions, editors, and manuscript authorities.
• A summary of the book’s allegorical dialogue and the threefold journey toward true learning.
• Notes on how the work has been used in education, including references to the plan and the questions that follow the text.

Ideal for readers of classical philosophy, translation study, and scholarly reference, this edition provides essential context, careful editorial notes, and a thorough introduction to Cebes’ Tablet.

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About the Author

Richard Parsons was born April 1964 under the name Richard John Summers. He was a pupil of West Hatch High School. At the age of 16 he had a job as an assistant printer. He left printing for an occupation as an inventor. Then in 1986 he departed from technology for various religious studies and certificates, returning to technology in 1993. After making several failed technological ventures, he wrote the book Immortality for You. A life saving book 200 years ahead of its time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0331576961
• ISBN 13: 9780331576962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 100