Plato's Symposium : issues in interpretation and reception
Contributor(s): Lesher, J. H
| Nails, Debra | Sheffield, Frisbee C. C.
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BookSeries: Hellenic studies ; 22. Publisher: Washington DC : Harvard University Press , 2006Description: 446 pages.ISBN: 0674023757; 9780674023758.Subject(s): Plato. Symposium | Socrates | Love -- Early works to 1800DDC classification: 184 Online resources: Table of contents only | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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BardBerlinLibrary Circulation Office | 184 LES 2006 (Browse shelf) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-398) and indexes.
Part I: The symposium and Plato's philosophy -- The symposium as a Socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe -- The role of the earlier speeches in theSymposium : Plato's endoxic method? / Frisbee C. C. Sheffield -- A platonic reading of Plato's Symposium / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Part II: Interpreting Plato's Symposium -- Medicine, magic, and religion in Plato's Symposium / Mark L. McPherran -- Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's 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 Roxana Carone -- Part III: The Symposium, sex, and gender -- Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Plato's 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 -- Part IV: The reception of Plato's Symposium -- Plato's Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction / Richard Hunter -- Some notable afterimages of Plato's Symposium / J.H. Lesher -- The hangover of Plato's Symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528) / Diskin Clay -- Platonic selves in Shelley and Stevens / David K. O'Connor.
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