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Lesher, J., D. Nails, and F. Sheffield, editors, Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception
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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
Diagrams and Illustrations
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Chapter Eight
Figure 1. Seating arrangement of the guests at Agathon’s symposion
Figure 2. Historical incidents in the aftermath of Plato’s Symposium
Chapter Fourteen
Figure 1. Anselm Feuerbach, Das Gastmahl des Platon
Figure 2. Pietro Testa, The Drunken Alcibiades
Figure 3. Peter Paul Rubens, The Drunken Alcibiades Interrupting the Symposium
Figure 4. John La Farge, Agathon to Erosanthe (Votive Wreath)
Figure 5. Jean-François-Pierre Peyron, Socrates Leading Alcibiades away from the Dangers of a Sensual Life
Figure 6. Hellenistic marble relief, Youth among the Courtesans
Figure 7. Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Socrates Tearing Alcibiades from the Arms of a Courtesan
Figure 8. Jean-Leon Gerome, Socrates Seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia
Figure 9. Francesco Hayez, Socrates Discovers Alcibiades in the Women’s Quarters
Figure 10. Antonio Canova, Socrates Rescuing Alcibiades at the Battle of Potidaea
Figure 11. Inigo Jones, Heads of Socrates and Alcibiades
Figure 12. Bronze relief, Socrates and Diotima
Figure 13. Jacques-Louis David, Socrates and Diotima
Figure 14. Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates
Figure 15. Miniature, St. John Mounting the Ladder to the Opened Doors of Heaven
Figure 16. Sandro Botticelli, The Seventh Sphere: Saturn
Figure 17. Giovanni di Paolo, The Heaven of Saturn
Figure 18. Sandro Botticelli, Primavera
Figure 19. Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus
Figure 20a. Fresco, arriving symposiasts
Figure 20b. Fresco, funerary banquet
Figure 21. Woodcut after the reverse of a portrait medal by Giovanni da Cavino
Figure 22. Emily Hubley, Children of the Sun
Chapter Fifteen
Figure 1. Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de’ Benci, obverse
Figure 2. Leonardo da Vinci, Ginevra de’ Benci, reverse