- List of Diagrams and Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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]
- 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]
- 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 [Jeffrey Carnes]
- 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]
- The Contributors
- Works Cited
- Index of Passages
- General Index
HELLENIC STUDIES SERIES
Hellenic Studies Series 22
Plato’s Symposium
Issues in Interpretation and Reception
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