Lysis, Phaedrus, and Symposium
Subtitle: Plato on homosexuality
By: translated by Benjamin Jowett ; with selected retranslation, notes, and introduction by Eugene O'Connor.
Contributors: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893.; O'Connor, Eugene Michael, 1948-
Series: Great books in philosophy
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Socrates; Male homosexuality -- Greece -- Early works to 1800; Friendship -- Early works to 1800; Love -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Plato on homosexuality
Work titles: Dialogues.
Description: In the three dialogues of Lysis, Phaedrus and Symposium, Socrates searches for the truth about love and friendship; in closing so, he reveals how his Athenian contemporaries regarded homosexual love as an educative, aesthetic, and social force.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Eugene O'Connor; title: Lysis, or friendship; title: Phaedrus; title: Symposium.