Plato's Symposium
Subtitle: issues in interpretation and reception
By: edited by J.H. Lesher, Debra Nails, and Frisbee C.C. Sheffield.
Contributors: Lesher, J. H.; Nails, Debra, 1950-; Sheffield, Frisbee C. C.
Series: Hellenic studies series -- 22
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
Subjects: Plato.; Socrates.; Love -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The symposium and Plato's philosophy; title: The symposium as a socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe; title: The role of the earlier speeches in the symposium  Plato's endoxic method? / Frisbee C. C. Sheffield; title: A platonic reading of Plato's symposium / Lloyd Gerson; title: Part II: Interpreting Plato's symposium; title: Medicine, magic, and religion in Plato's symposium / Mark McPherran; title: Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's symposium / Gabriel Richardson Lear; title: A study in violets : alcibiades in the symposium / C.D.C. Reeve; title: Where is Socrates on the "ladder of love"? / Ruby Blondell; title: Tragedy off-stage / Debra Nails; title: The virtues of platonic love / Gabriela Carone; title: Part III: The symposium, sex, and gender; title: Agathon, pausanias, and diotima in Plato's symposium : paiderastia and philosophia / Luc brisson; title: Female imagery in plato / Angela Hobbs; title: Plato in the courtroom: the surprising influence of the symposium on legal theory; title: Jeffrey carnes; title: Part IV: The reception of Plato's symposium; title: Plato's symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction / Richard Hunter; title: Some notable afterimages of plato's symposium / J.H. Lesher; title: The hangover of Plato's symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528) / Diskin Clay; title: Platonic selves in shelley and stevens / David K. O'Connor.