Plato ʹs Symposium : issues in interpretation and reception /

Other Authors: Lesher, J. H., Nails, Debra,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington DC: Centre for Hellenic Studues, 2006
Series:Hellenic studies ; 22
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Online Access:http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_LesherJ_NailsD_SheffieldF_eds.Symposium_Interpretation_Reception.2007
Table of Contents:
  • The symposium as a Socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe
  • The role of the earlier speeches in the Symposium Platoʹs endoxic method? / Frisbee C. C. Sheffield
  • A Platonic reading of Platoʹs Symposium / Lloyd Gerson
  • Medicine, magic, and religion in Platoʹs Symposium / Mark McPherran
  • Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Platoʹs Symposium / Gabriel Richardson Lear
  • A study in violets : Alcibiades in the Symposium / C.D.C. Reeve
  • Where is Socrates on the "ladder of love"? / Ruby Blondell
  • Tragedy off-stage / Debra Nails
  • The virtues of Platonic love / Gabriela Carone
  • Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Platoʹs Symposium : paiderastia and philosophia / Luc Brisson
  • Female imagery in Plato / Angela Hobbs
  • Plato in the courtroom: the surprising influence of the Symposium on legal theory
  • Jeffrey Carnes
  • Platoʹs Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction / Richard Hunter
  • Some notable afterimages of Platoʹs Symposium / J.H. Lesher
  • The hangover of Platoʹs Symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528) / Diskin Clay
  • Platonic selves in Shelley and Stevens / David K. OʹConnor