It was probably inevitable, but is deeply sad, that Plato’s Symposium (circa 380 BCE), has been drawn into the culture wars. A dialogue of great complexity and elegance, the book is one of the ...

When we use the word “Eros” today, we often invoke assumptions shaped more by psychoanalysis than by the ancient Greek god of love. Psychoanalytic thinkers have long been drawn to Plato’s Symposium.

Studies in the Novel has been published quarterly by the Department of English at the University of North Texas since 1969. Its aim is to present excellence in criticism of the novel in all periods, ...

Description: What draws us to politics? Is political ambition an extension or a betrayal of the love of other human beings? What is the relationship between the ordering of our loves and public order?

The Symposium is a vivid, funny and moving dramatic dialogue in which a wide variety of characters - orators, doctor, comic poet, tragic poet, soldier-cum-statesman, philosopher and others - give ...