Plato's Symposium

by: Hunter, R.

Price: 68,00 EURO

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 The Symposium is Plato's best-known work. It is now a seminal text, not just for the representation of Socrates, Plato's ontology, and for the history of ideas about desire, but for Athenian social and political history, the history of rhetoric, and for the image of the intellectual in Western tradition. It is also a high point in classical literary art. This book pays close attention to parody of modes of style and thought as well as to the provocative construction of the whole. It will introduce readers to the work itself by contextualizing it in Greek literature in general and the Platonic

Contents
Chapter 1 Transforming Bodies, Transforming Epic
Chapter 2 Creation, Flood, and Fire
Chapter 3 Cadmus and the Tragic Dynasty of Thebes
Chapter 4 Human Artistry and Divine Jealousy
Chapter 5 The Lives of Women
Chapter 6 Aspects of Love
Chapter 7 Heroes-Old Style and New
Chapter 8 Fantasy, the Fabulous and the Miraculous Metamorphoses of Nature
Chapter 9 Genre and Narrative: Ovid's Polymorphous Poem
Chapter 10 After Ovid
Appendix 1 Ovid's Poetical Works
Appendix 2 Outline of the Metamorphoses
Index of Persons and Ancient Authors

Series:
Oxford approaches to classical literature

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• ISBN-13: 9780253214850 / 978-0-253-21485-0
• ISBN-03: 0253214858 / 0-253-21485-8
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• ISBN-13: 9780195160796 / 978-0-19-516079-6
• ISBN-03: 0195160797 / 0-19-516079-7
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