TY - BOOK AU - Lesher,J.H. AU - Nails,Debra AU - Sheffield,Frisbee C.C. TI - Plato's Symposium: issues in interpretation and reception SN - 0674023757 AV - B385 .P58 2006 U1 - 184 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Washington, DC, Cambridge, Mass. PB - Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, Distributed by Harvard University Press KW - Plato. KW - Socrates. KW - Love KW - Early works to 1800 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-398) and indexes; Part I: The symposium and Plato's philosophy -- 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 -- Part II: Interpreting Plato's Symposium -- 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 -- Part III: The Symposium, sex, and gender -- 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 -- Part IV: The reception of Plato's Symposium -- 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip075/2006037295.html ER -