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Plato's Symposium: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary Paperback – November 4, 2009

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Facing each of the 72 pages of John Burnet's Greek edition of Plato's Symposium (originally published by Oxford University Press in 1905) is a single page of corresponding vocabulary and intermediate level grammatical commentary. Once readers have memorized the core vocabulary list, they will be able to read the classical Greek and consult all relevant vocabulary and commentary without turning the page.
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Geoffrey Steadman (Ph.D., Classics) currently teaches Latin in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Geoffrey Steadman (November 4, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 098430651X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0984306510
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches
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Stephen Nimis
5.0 out of 5 stars Great intermediate text
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2010
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I used this text in an intermediate Greek course (third year Greek) with a group of 8 students. The format of the text (like that of Clyde Pharr's Aeneid) makes it easy for students to progress rapidly through the text. If anything, the annotations are a little too complete, often translating several sentences in a row. However, we were able to make it through the entire speech of Diotima in about four weeks, about six pages of OCT text a week. This makes it possible to spend more time in class talking about the literary and philosophical qualities of the text and less time on grammar. Each page has a glossary of words for the facing text, except for more common words, which are listed in two glossaries (I'm not sure that was such a good idea). Several of the page glossaries were alphabetized incorrectly, but these are errors that can be fixed easily in future versions, since the book is published by print-on-demand. I should have been keeping track of these errors as I was going along to reprot to the author, but I didn't. The text itself is a xerox of the out of print version of the OCT and it is poor quality, but this also contributes to the very reasonable price of the work (no copyright fees). The author notes in the preface that pdf files of the text and glossaries are available upon request. The physical quality of the book is good. There is a short and unpretentious introduction and a decent bibliography. The author has also done a book of Herodotus and a selection from the Odyssey. I look forward to using these texts in future courses. The format and the price of these texts make them very hard to beat. Instructors will decide for themselves how to use them in their courses. The author has set out to make all the resources for reading the text available in a simple, easy-to-use format, and he has achieved this goal admirably. We need more texts like this for Greek.
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Markos
5.0 out of 5 stars classic work, great text, wonderful commentary
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2010
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The Symposium is one of the greatest things ever written in any language. Steadman gives us a nice, large font. He reprints the Oxford Classic Text, but he blows it up. His text is about 75% bigger than the Loeb texts, which makes a huge difference in the pleasure of reading the Greek. This does occasionally leave the text a little blurry, but this is no big deal.

The Commentary and vocab list on opposite pages is simply marvelous. Steadman's definitions are concise, but he includes the full range of meanings of each word, even meanings which may not be found in Plato. His notes cover every possible problem you might have, and they are wonderfully brief and to the point, using simple grammatical terminology. He gives you a literal translation for almost every difficult passage, so you really have everything on one page, dictionary, commentary, and translation. This makes the Symposium a joy to read without flipping around. Steadman even includes a few paradigms of rare or irregular verbs or nouns right there on the same opposite page where you need them. The book is a great size, thin but tall enough to produce a large font. It does not exactly lie open in your hand but it is more flexible than most paperbacks. It lacks a ribbon marker but you can put one in yourself. I have already bought Steadman's Odyssey and intend to buy just about anything else he produces in this series. (Although I have passed on his Herodotus simply because I find Greek history boring!)

As to Plato's work itself, it is marvelous Greek, witty, profound, dramatic, moving. Plato makes the serious point that God is love, and yet he has so much fun that you will too. There are jokes in here that will make you laugh out loud and Greek sentences you will want to read again and again. Steadman and Socrates make a great team!
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Anna
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a help to our intermediate class.
Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2012
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I used this text during my 2nd semester, 3rd year in Ancient Greek I was a bit nervous to be tackling Plato, but this book helped make it more approachable. I have to say that we used Steadman's  Homer's Odyssey 9-12: Greek Text with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary  for the preceding semester so I did anticipate the format of this book.
There are grammatical notes and explanations for some of the trickier passages, which made it easier to stay with the reading rather than getting lost in other books looking for those answers. Smithe and Liddel & Scott are undeniably useful, but having to jump back and forth really breaks up the flow of the language. I had enough grammar and reading experience to get the gist, but the notes (as well as my professor, of course!) brought a depth to the text that I would never have realized without them.
The introduction of vocabulary on each page is also helpful, though I think I memorized less during our time with Steadman (both semesters). Those vocabulary words are hard to resist when they're right there next to the passage! I had to begin forcing myself to look them up elsewhere because I needed that reinforcement to retain the words. This, however, is really my own learning style rather than a shortcoming with the book.
There are a few minor errors as can happen with self publishing, but they are far from frequent and usually fairly easy to get around. According to his website as well as the intros to his books the author encourages emails about these errors so make a note of them.
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SED
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant concept for an intermediate Greek text
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2013
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I used this in my third-semester college Greek class. The students and I all loved it. A Greek text on the left-hand page is faced on the right with a list of vocabulary on that page and a grammatical commentary. Appendices include a list of all vocabulary in the book and grammar review. Where space permitted, Steadman printed some declensions and conjugations under the grammatical commentary where relevant (I wish there were more of these). I only wish he had more books in his series so that I could use them for every intermediate-Greek class I teach.

One small con is that while the Greek text appears to by typo-free, this isn't true of the commentary. I caught a few major mistakes; nothing that would have seriously hindered the students, but which should be fixed if there's another printing or on the author's website.
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Mr B
5.0 out of 5 stars Plato's Symposium. Geoffrey Steadman
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2017
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This is a really clever idea. There are some approaches to learning Greek that are traditional, using parsing and so on, and some modern approaches which are much more user friendly, such as the JACT series; there are also approaches which focus on an extended passage, Plato, or Homer, as with Jeremy Beetham. One can of course get the original Greek text and a good translation in the Leob series, but it tells you nothing about the grammar. What no one tells you is that without some knowledge of the grammar, recourse to a simple dictionary, may not tell you what you want to know, and of course there is the other problem: Homeric Greek is not exactly the same as Greek in Plato’s time, nor is that exactly the same as what might be found in Plotinus or New Testament Greek.

I was undertaking a close reading project on the Phaedo, and found Steadman’s production quite helpful, although it was obvious that some improvements could be made, say with the layout. He is using Burnett’s standard Oxford edition fro the Greek, and there are quite dramatic improvements with layout. The Greek text is on one side of a double page, while on the other is a word list – a lexicon for that page, and what he calls a commentary, which is not a commentary of the text, but a commentary on the grammar. There is also a grammar section at the end which includes: particles, verbs and tenses and a core vocabulary. What he is trying to avoid is the old problem of trying to read at east three different pages simultaneously: text, dictionary, and grammar book, which describes as ‘incessant page-flipping… with readers spending more time looking up dictionary entries than reading the actual text.’

His aim is that this could be a stand-alone textbook or as a supplement to a more advanced student commentary. He has moved beyond Plato with the series, so not only is there now one available of the Republic, but Herodotus and some of the Greek playwrights. The Republic is a long text, but I would like to see what he does with Plotinus, say Ennead I 6, or Ennead V 1, which are shorter texts. I am very impressed, yes, like most translators he will say vocabulary assimilation is very important, but this is a very nice way of doing it. Excellent.
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Cliente Amazon
1.0 out of 5 stars Una maquetacion inadecuada
Reviewed in Spain on April 25, 2017
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La maquetacion no es la adecuada. Resulta engorroso tener que ir desplazado continuamente la vista de izquierda a derecha para consultar las notas y el vocabulario; además, el texto original debería estar a la derecha y no a la izquierda (este defecto es común también a la mayoría de las ediciones bilingues). Afortunadamente, parece que el autor ha rectificado en los siguientes títulos de la serie.
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Tyler
5.0 out of 5 stars Very helpful book for beginning the free reading of Greek ...
Reviewed in Canada on December 28, 2014
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Very helpful book for beginning the free reading of Greek texts. Dr. Steadman's webpage provides many digital aides such as vocabulary flash cards and (for other commentaries) sheets with text and lines for translation directly under text.
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Bernard Soubirous
5.0 out of 5 stars Un livre utile
Reviewed in France on May 2, 2016
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Travailler à partir d'un livre comme celui-ci est un moyen efficace et agréable d'améliorer son grec. Il y a juste de qu'il faut d'appareil critique pour ne pas être complètement noyé, moyennant quoi on peut se délecter à lire Platon dans le texte.
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