Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception

by Luc Brisson, James Lesher, Frisbee Sheffield, et al.

In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage' as a vision of the soul's journey to heaven. Ficino's commentary on the Symposium inspired poets and artists throughout Renaissance Europe and introduced 'a Platonic love' into common speech. Themes or images from the dialogue have appeared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023757
• ISBN13: 9780674023758
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 9.0"