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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> This book has a checkered history. I first read Theaetetus in 1997 with Peter Winch at the University of Illinois a few months before he passed away. He had agreed to supervise my Ph.D. thesis but his passing put an end to this plan. His loss grieved me so much that for two years I refused to look at my notes on the dialogue and tried to find a new dissertation topic. In 2000 impelled by the desire to vindicate the past I picked up the lost thread and wrote my dissertation on the definition of knowledge as perception under the supervision of the late Gerald M. Browne. I spent the years 2002-5 at a small liberal arts college in Southern California where library resources were scant and excellent teaching was essential. I put the formidable Theaeteus aside indulged my nascent interest in the reception of classics and taught wonderful students. It was not until 2005 when I joined the Classics department at the University of California at Irvine that I reread both the dialogue and my thesis and decided to start afresh. The three-year lapse between the dissertation defense and my arrival at UC Irvine helped me enormously it was a much-needed respite that wiped the slate clean. As a result the third chapter of this book bears no resemblance whatsoever to its thesis ancestor; everything has been reconceived mulled over redone. I hope that this long period of intermit-tent gestation has yielded a better book than the one I would have otherwise written. (LL)