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Lesher, J., D. Nails, and F. Sheffield, editors, Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception
Diagrams and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The Symposium and Plato’s Philosophy
1. The Symposium as a Socratic Dialogue, Christopher Rowe 2. The Role of the Earlier Speeches in the Symposium: Plato's Endoxic Method? Frisbee C. C. Sheffield 3. A Platonic Reading of Plato's Symposium, Lloyd P. Gerson Part II. Interpreting Plato’s Symposium
4. Medicine, Magic, and Religion in Plato's Symposium, Mark L. McPherran 5. Permanent Beauty and Becoming Happy in Plato's Symposium, Gabriel Richardson Lear 6. A Study in Violets: Alcibiades in the Symposium, C. D. C. Reeve 7. Where is Socrates on the "Ladder of Love"? Ruby Blondell 8. Tragedy Off-Stage, Debra Nails 9. The Virtues of Platonic Love, Gabriela Roxana Carone Part III. The Symposium, Sex, and Gender
10. Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Plato's Symposium: Paiderastia and Philosophia, Luc Brisson 11. Female Imagery in Plato, Angela Hobbs 12. Plato in the Courtroom: The Surprising Influence of the Symposium on Legal Theory, Jeffrey Carnes Part IV. The Reception of Plato’s Symposium
13. Plato's Symposium and the Traditions of Ancient Fiction, Richard Hunter 14. Some Notable Afterimages of Plato's Symposium, J. H. Lesher 15. The Hangover of Plato's Symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528), Diskin Clay 16. Platonic Selves in Shelley and Stevens, David K. O’Connor Contributors Works Cited
The Contributors
Ruby Blondell is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Luc Brisson is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Jeffrey Carnes is Associate Professor of Languages, Literature, and Linguistics at Syracuse University.
Gabriela Carone is an independent scholar.
Diskin Clay is R. J. R. Nabisco Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University.
Lloyd Gerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Angela Hobbs is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge.
Gabriel Richardson Lear is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
J. H. Lesher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland.
Mark L. McPherran is Professor of Philosophy at Simon Fraser University.
Debra Nails is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University.
David K. O’Connor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Christopher Rowe is Professor of Greek at the University of Durham.
Frisbee C. C. Sheffield is Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London. {377|378}