Section outline

  • Week VI: (October 6-10)

    Readings: 199b-207a the Speeches of Socrates and Diotima

    Secondary Reading: Halperin, David. 1989. “Why Is Diotima a Woman?” In One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, 113–51. Routledge.

    Supplementary Reading:

    ·       Edmonds, Radcliffe G. 2000. “Socrates the Beautiful: Role Reversal and Midwifery in Plato’s Symposium.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 130: 261–85.

    ·       Hobbs, Angela. 2006. “Female Imagery in Plato.” In Plato’s Symposium : Issues in Interpretation and Reception, edited by Lesher, James, Debra Nails, and Frisbee Sheffield, 252–71. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.

    ·       Sheffield, Frisbee C. C. 2006. “The Role of the Earlier Speeches in the Symposium: Plato’s Endoxic Method?” In Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception, edited by Lesher, James, Debra Nails, and Frisbee Sheffield, 23–46. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies.

    ·       Plotinus Ennead III.5

     

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