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Permanent Greek Translation Seminar (Plato)

Prof. António de Castro Caeiro

The seminar will analyze excerpts from Plato’s dialogues on psychē: the Phaedo, the Phaedrus, and the Republic. Attention will be given to vocabulary acquisition and text commentary, with the aim of producing a compilation of texts on this theme.


  • Burnet, Phaedo. Platonis opera, vol. 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900 (repr. 1967): St I.57a-118a.

Fridays, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Duration: 1 semester


Note: The seminar assumes advanced knowledge of Greek. The seminar is not a curricular unit and therefore does not require evaluation and does not award ECTS credits.


For more information, please contact António de Castro Caeiro at cajc@fcsh.unl.pt.