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Plato on Love

Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with Selections from Republic and Laws

Plato

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Published: 02/2025
Pages: 272
Print ISBN: 9781600000000
eBook ISBN: 9781603842754

DESCRIPTION

This collection features Plato's writings on sex and love in the preeminent translations of Stanley Lombardo, Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas, D. S. Hutchinson, and C. D. C. Reeve. Reeve's Introduction provides a wealth of historical information about Plato and Socrates, and the sexual norms of classical Athens. His introductory essay looks closely at the dialogues themselves and includes the following sections: Socrates and the Art of Love; Socrates and Athenian Paiderastia; Loving Socrates; Love and the Ascent to the Beautiful; The Art and Psychology of Love Explained; and Writing about Love.

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