9. On Plato's Symposium

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction ix
5. 1. The First Crisis in First Philosophy 1
6. 2. Achilles and the Iliad 15
7. 3. The Aristeia of Diomedes and the Plot of the Iliad 34
8. 4. The Furies of Aeschylus 62
9. 5. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus 71
10. 6. Euripides' Hippolytus 84
11. 7. On Greek Tragedy 99
12. 8. Physics and Tragedy: On Plato's Cratylus 146
13. 9. On Plato's Symposium 167
14. 10. Protagoras's Myth and Logos 186
15. 11. On Plato's Lysis 198
16. 12. On Interpreting Plato's Charmides 231
17. 13. Plato's Laches: A Question of Definition 257
18. 14. On Plato's Phaedo 277
19. 15. Plato's Theaetetus: On the Way of the Logos 297
20. 16. On Plato's Sophist 323
21. 17. The Plan of Plato's Statesman 354
22. 18. On the Timaeus 376
23. 19. On Wisdom and Philosophy: The First Two Chapters of Aristotle's Metaphysics A 396
24. 20. Strauss on Plato 407
25. Selected Works 419
26. Index 423