Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' Funeral Oration

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).

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

This text brings together for the first time two complete key works from classical antiquity on the politics of Athens: Plato''s "Menexenus" and the funeral oration by Pericles (from Thucydides'' history of the Peloponnesian War). With an introductory essay, notes.