Socrates' daimonic art : love for wisdom in four platonic dialogues /
"Despite increasing interest in the figure of Socrates and in love in ancient Greece, no recent monograph studies these topics in all four of Plato's dialogues on love and friendship. This book provides important new insights into these subjects by examining Plato's characterization o...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: overview of the erotic eialogues
- Part I. Socrates and Two Young Men: 1. 'Your love and mine': Erôs and self-knowledge in Alcibiades I; 2. 'In love with acquiring friends': Socrates in the Lysis
- Part II. Erôs and Hybris in the Symposium: Introduction to Part II: the narrators of the Symposium; 3. In praise of Eros: the speeches in the Symposium; 4. 'You are hubristic': Socrates, Alcibiades and Agathon
- Part III. Love and Friendship in the Phaedrus: Introduction to Part III: the erotic art in the Symposium and Phaedrus; 5. The lover's friendship; 6. The lovers' dance: charioteer and horses
- Conclusion.
