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Plato's Symposium : issues in interpretation and reception / edited by J.H. Lesher, Debra Nails, and Frisbee C.C. Sheffield.

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Plato's Symposium : issues in interpretation and reception / edited by J.H. Lesher, Debra Nails, and Frisbee C.C. Sheffield.
Publication
Washington, DC : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Lesher, J. H. (James H.)
  • Nails, Debra, 1950-
  • Sheffield, Frisbee C. C. (Frisbee Candida Cheyenne)
Description
xi, 446 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Hellenic studies ; 22
Uniform Title
Hellenic studies ; 22.
Subject
  • Plato
  • Socrates
  • Plato > Symposium
  • Plato > Influence
  • Platon
  • Socrate
  • Plato v427-v347
  • Symposium (Plato)
  • Love > Early works to 1800
  • Amour > Ouvrages avant 1800
  • Receptie
  • Love
Genre/Form
  • Early works
  • Kongress – Washington (DC) – 2005.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-398) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The symposium as a Socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe -- The role of the earlier speeches in the Symposium : Plato's endoxic method? / Frisbee C.C. Sheffield -- A platonic reading of Plato's Symposium / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Medicine, magic, and religion in Plato's Symposium / Mark L. McPherran -- Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's Symposium / Gabriel Richardson Lear -- A study in violets : alcibiades in the Symposium / C.D.C. Reeve -- Where is Socrates on the "ladder of love"? / Ruby Blondell -- Tragedy off-stage / Debra Nails -- The virtues of platonic love / Gabriela Roxana Carone -- Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Plato's Symposium : Paiderastia and Philosophia / Luc Brisson -- Female imagery in Plato / Angela Hobbs -- Plato in the courtroom: the surprising influence of the Symposium on legal theory / Jeffrey Carnes -- Plato's Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction / Richard Hunter -- Some notable afterimages of Plato's Symposium / J.H. Lesher -- The hangover of Plato's Symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528) / Diskin Clay -- Platonic selves in Shelley and Stevens / David K. O'Connor.
ISBN
  • 0674023757
  • 9780674023758
LCCN
2006037295
OCLC
  • 76261916
  • SCSB-11047901
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library