PLATO PAGE PHILOSOPHY AND SOCRATES

PLATO AND HIS TIME

ABOUT THE ANCIENT GREEK WORLD

• The Ancient Greek World Museum
• Classics Ireland: "Sexuality in 5th Century Athens" by Brian Arkins
• Classics Page: Symposium - Drinking Party
• Diotima: Women and Gender in the Ancient World

ABOUT PLATO

• Christopher Planeaux Plato Site (click on PLATO)
• Classics Page: Plato and his Republic
• Emerson on Plato
• Evansville "Exploring Ancient World Cultures" - essay on Plato (1996) | "Plato and his Dialogues"

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PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM

TRANSLATIONS OF THE SYMPOSIUM (ONLINE)

• Benjamin Jowett: at Columbia | at Fordham | at MIT 

COMMENTARIES ON THE SYMPOSIUM

• Dr. Gardner Fair's Guide to the Symposium
• Tufts Perseus:  Text and Commentary by R. J. Bury
   

REVIEWS OF AND INFORMATION ABOUT TRANSLATIONS-COMMENTARIES ON THE SYMPOSIUM (OTHER )

• Christopher Gill (translator and commentator for the Penquin Classics Symposium)
• Seth Benardete (trans.  , with commentary also by Allan Bloom). Plato's Symposium. Review 
• Avi Sharon (trans. 1998), Plato's Symposium. Focus Philosophical Library. Review
• Leo Strauss (ed. 2001; from 1959).  Leo Strauss of Plato's Symposium.  Review
• Robin Waterfield (trans 1994), Plato: Symposium.  Review

LOVE: Floren's Philosophy of Love page  | Love and Spirituality (USD)

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PHILOSOPHY

DOING PHILOSOPHY - THE CONVERSATION: Socrates Café from The Society for Philosophical Inquiry

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RELATED SITES

• Bernstein Season Serenade after Plato's Symposium (1954).
• "Origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch (You-Tube video)  - from Aristophones' love story of the "other half"
• Pascal Psydon adaptation of the myth (video - animated - French, with English subtitles)

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Created 01 September 2004. Revised 25 August 2006
Contents Copyright 2004-6.  Gloria L. Floren. All rights reserved.
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