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Plato's Symposium : issues in interpretation and reception / edited by J.H. Lesher, Debra Nails, and Frisbee C.C. Sheffield.

Contributor(s): Series: Hellenic studies ; 22Publication details: Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.Description: xi, 446 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0674023757
  • 9780674023758
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 184 22
LOC classification:
  • B385 .P58 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I: The symposium and Plato's philosophy -- The symposium as a Socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe -- The role of the earlier speeches in the Symposium : 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks B385 .P58 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001006161

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 the Symposium : 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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