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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
To cite this work:
Lesher, James, Debra Nails, and Frisbee Sheffield, eds. 2007. Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Hellenic Studies Series 22. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.
