DAVID SANSONE is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published on topics ranging from Bronze-Age iconography to the poetry of John Milton and the music dramas of Richard Wagner. He specializes in Greek language and literature and is the author of Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1988), Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric (2012), Ancient Greek Civilization (2016) and Plato: Menexenus (Cambridge, 2020).
'The Commentary does not assume any great knowledge of Greek among its readers, and any and all potential grammatical or syntactical problems are handled with admirable clarity.' Colin Leach, Classics for All 'The volume brings out Plato's stunning variety of ideas, moves, provocations, and dubious spans of argumentation. It draws from an attractively eclectic variety of literature, much of it from the past three decades though with choice older works … Any philosopher or classicist should consult it continuously when studying, writing about, or teaching the dialogue.' Christopher Moore, Bryn Mawr Classical Review