Section outline

  • Week I:  (August 31 - September 4)

    Introduction; Review of syntax

    Readings: 172a-174a Apollodorus' Prologue

    Secondary Reading: Plato’s Symposium in English

    Supplementary Reading:

    ·       Guthrie, W. K. C. 1975. “Symposium.” In A History of Greek Philosophy:  Volume IV - Plato: The Man and His Dialogues - Earlier Period, 365–96. Cambridge University Press.

    ·       Arieti, James. 1995. “How to Read a Platonic Dialogue.” In The Third Way: New Directions in Platonic Studies, edited by Francisco Gonzalez, 119–32. Rowman & Littlefield.