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Gorgias | Resources

Class times: 6.30 pm Tuesdays: 8, 15, 22 Feb and 1, 8, 15 Mar 2022

Zoom link |online-only | same link for all six classes

Dial-in back-up in case of internet disruptions: 03 7018 2005 | Meeting ID: 871 8620 0474 | Passcode: 343569

Course Outline and weekly reading guide

Access to the text

Print translations of Plato’s Gorgias are published by Penguin and Oxford

Online, we recommend David Horan’s translation, which can be printed in PDF.

Catch-up Classes

Week 1

Session 1 | The art of persuasion | page 447 to 461b

Week 2

Session 2 | Better to be wronged than to do wrong | page 461b to 481b

Week 3

Session 3 | Triumph of the will | page 481b to 494c

Week 4

Session 4 | Hedonism | page 494c to 499b

Week 5

Session 5 | What is the good life? | page 499b to 513c

Week 6

Session 6 | Governing by rhetoric corrupts society | page 513c to 527e