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Plato’s Symposium

Issues in Interpretation and Reception
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Description

In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. Ficino's commentary on the Symposium inspired poets and artists throughout Renaissance Europe and introduced 'a Platonic love' into common speech. Themes or images from the dialogue have appeared in paintings or sketches by Rubens, David, Feuerbach, and La Farge, as well as in musical compositions by Satie and Bernstein. The dialogue's view of love as 'desire for eternal possession of the good' is still of enormous philosophical interest in its own right. Nevertheless, questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features, the significance of the dialogue as a whole, and the character of its influence. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to address such questions.

Author Biography:

James H. Lesher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Debra Nalls is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. Frisbee Sheffield is Research Fellow in Classics at Cambridge University. Diskin Clay is R.J.R. Nabisco Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University. C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Christopher J. Rowe is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham, UK.
Release date Australia
January 1st, 2007
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Angela Hobbs
  • Contributions by Diskin Clay
  • Contributions by Gabriela Carone
  • Contributions by Jeffrey Carnes
  • Contributions by Lloyd Gerson
  • Contributions by Luc Brisson
  • Contributions by Ruby Blondell
  • Edited by Debra Nails
  • Edited by Frisbee Sheffield
  • Edited by James H. Lesher
Illustrations
25 black and white halftones
Dimensions
153x228x28
ISBN-13
9780674023758
Product ID
2723546

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