CLG 301: Plato

Course Description

Spring 2000: Professor A. Ford

Books on Reserve:


K.J Dover, ed. Symposium. Required


R. Kraut, ed. Cambridge Companion to Plato. See essay by G. Ferrari on Platonic love.


A. Nehamas, Symposium.


A. Nehamas, Plato's Phaedrus. Required.


Journal Articles/Book Chapters on Reserve to be read in the course of the term:


A. Nightingale, "The Folly of Praise: Plato's Critique of Encomiastic Discourse in the Lysis and Symposium," Classical Quarterly 43: pp.112 ff.


H. Bacon, "Socrates Crowned" Grecourt review, 3: pp. 5-18.


D. M. Halperin, "Why is Diotima a Woman?" , in Before Sexuality, ed. Zeitlin, Winkler et al.


K. J. Dover, "Aristophanes' Speech," Journal of Hellenic Studies, 66: pp.41-50.


K. J. Dover, "The Date of Plato's Symp.," Phoenix, 10: pp. 72 ff.


E. Pender, "Spiritual Pregnancy in Plato's Symposium," Classical Quarterly 42: pp. 72 ff.

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