Plato's "Symposium"

Issues in Interpretation and Reception
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-674-02375-8
Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

Reihe: Hellenic Studies Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lesher, James H.

Nails, Debra

Sheffield, Frisbee

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blondell, Ruby

Brisson, Luc

Carnes, Jeffrey

Carone, Gabriela

Clay, Diskin

Gerson, Lloyd

Hobbs, Angela

Hunter, Richard L.

Lear, Gabriel Richardson

McPherran, Mark

O'Connor, David

Penner, Terry

Reeve, C. D. C.

Rowe, Christopher J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Sheffield, Frisbee
Frisbee Sheffield is Research Fellow in Classics at Cambridge University.

Reeve, C. D. C.
C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Clay, Diskin
Diskin Clay is R.J.R. Nabisco Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University.

Rowe, Christopher J.
Christopher J. Rowe is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham, UK.

Lesher, James H.
James H. Lesher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland.

Nails, Debra
Debra Nalls is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University.