The Symposium

Author : Plato
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226042758
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Symposium written by Plato and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth Benardete, with two illuminating commentaries on it: Benardete's "On Plato's Symposium" and Allan Bloom's provocative essay, "The Ladder of Love." In the Symposium, Plato recounts a drinking party following an evening meal, where the guests include the poet Aristophanes, the drunken Alcibiades, and, of course, the wise Socrates. The revelers give their views on the timeless topics of love and desire, all the while addressing many of the major themes of Platonic philosophy: the relationship of philosophy and poetry, the good, and the beautiful.

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781560541646
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symposium written by Muriel Spark and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521295239
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lakoma written by Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-02-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's dialogue the Symposium with introduction and commentary.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674997431
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lysis. Symposium. Phaedrus written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works in this volume explore the relationship between two people known as love (erōs) or friendship (philia). In Lysis, Socrates meets two young men at a wrestling school; in Symposium, he joins a company of accomplished men at a drinking party; and in Phaedrus, experimental speeches about love lead to a discussion of rhetoric.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 158510843X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symposium or Drinking Party written by Plato and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work: A concise introduction sets the scene, conveys the tenor of the dialogue, and introduces the reader to the main characters with a gloss on their backgrounds and a comment on their roles in the dialogue. It also provides a list of basic points for readers to keep in mind as they read the work. A thought-provoking interpretive essay offers reflections on the themes of the dialogue, focusing especially on the dialogue as drama. A select bibliography points to works, both classic and contemporary, that are especially relevant to readers of the Symposium. Two appendices consist of a line drawing that depicts the spacial layout and positioning of characters in the Symposium, and a chart that shows the relation of the first six speeches to number, age, parentage and the function of Eros.

Author : James H. Lesher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato's Symposium written by James H. Lesher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his Symposium, Plato crafted speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. But questions remain concerning the meaning of specific features, the significance of the dialogue as a whole, and the character of its influence. Here, an international team of scholars addresses such questions.

Author : Plato
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plato written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hercules Bantas
Publisher : Reluctant Geek
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Plato: The Symposium written by Hercules Bantas and published by Reluctant Geek. This book was released on with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, essay length guide examines Plato's discussion of love in The Symposium. It covers all the speeches, culminating in Alcibiades's drunken homage to Socrates, and examines the moral dimensions Plato attaches to love, as well as key concepts such as Common and Heavenly Love.

Author : Sally Wen Mao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938584060
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Honey Symposium written by Sally Wen Mao and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Like Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. Worldly, wily, wise: Mad Honey Symposium is an extraordinary debut."-Terrance Hayes"[Mad Honey Symposium] has all the delicacy of [Mao's] earlier writing-but now there's also a gritty, world-wise sense of humor that gives her work heavyweight swagger."-Dave EggersMad Honey Symposium buzzes with lush sound and sharp imagery, creating a vivid natural world that's constantly in flux. From Venus flytraps to mad honey eaters, badgers to empowered outsiders, Sally Wen Mao's poems inhabit the precarious space between the vulnerable and the ferocious-how thin that line is, how breakable-with wonder and verve.From "Valentine for a Flytrap":.There's voltage in your flowers-mulch skeins, armory for cunning loves. Your mouth pins every sticky body, swallowing iridescence, digesting light. Venus, let me swim in your solarium. Venus, take me in your summer gown.Sally Wen Mao was born in Wuhan, China, and grew up in Boston and the Bay Area. She is a Kundiman fellow and 826 Valencia Young Author's Scholar. Her poetry is published or forthcoming in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Indiana Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, and West Branch, among others. She holds a BA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from Cornell University, where she's currently a lecturer"--

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Symposium on Dwarf Mistletoe Control Through Forest Management, April 11-13, 1978, Berkeley, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: