Plato's Symposium
Issues in Interpretation and Reception
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 in paintings or sketches by Rubens, David, Feuerbach, and La Farge, as well as in musical compositions by Satie and Bernstein. The dialogue's view of love as 'desire for eternal possession of the good' is stil…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Nails, Debra (Hrsg.) / Sheffield, Frisbee (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-674-02375-8
- EAN: 9780674023758
- Produktnummer: 2381799
- Verlag: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 356 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.3 cm x D2.6 cm 702 g
- Abbildungen: 25 halftones
- Gewicht: 702
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
James H. Lesher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. Deborah Nalls is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. Frisbee Sheffield is Research Fellow in Classics at Cambridge University.
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