Photograph by AKG/Album One of Plato’s great works, also called the Symposium, examines the nature of love. Written around 375 B.C., it reveals the central importance of the feast to classical ...

Plato's Symposium is perhaps the most famous text on this subject. In it the playwright Aristophanes speculates that there were once three sexes - male, female and hermaphrodite, each of which had ...

Hauteur : 9 p. 8 lign.") E. McGrath, "The drunken Alcibiades", Rubens's picture of Plato's symposium, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, vol 46 (1983) pp. 228-35 Symposium (Classical ...

Who would you invite to your ideal dinner party? Plato answered that question centuries ago with his sublime Symposium, a ...

Lillian Wilde contemplates what love means. Plato’s dialogues, most notably the Phaedrus and the Symposium, mark the beginning of 2,400 years of written philosophical contemplations on love. Many ...

Kennedy’s new book, The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues, reports on the hidden doctrines revealed so far, including those in The Symposium, a philosophical text concerned with love. “Plato’s ...

They also contain Plato's moving account of the last days and death of Socrates. Plato's goal in dialogues of the middle years, e.g., the Republic, Phaedo, Symposium, and Timaeus, was to show the ...

In the Symposium, Alcibiades gives voice to some excessively lavish ... Alcibiades’ account of the ‘true’ Socrates is therefore highly suspect. However, in another of Plato’s dialogues, Lysis, there’s ...

Ageless Arete: Selected Essays from the 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy OPEN ACCESS 2022 Arete in Plato and Aristotle: Selected Essays from the ...