| 3pm Saturday 31 May 2025 | in Brunswick | Speakers: Martin Leckey & John Bigelow | Bookings Essential [BOOKED OUT] | Donations Accepted | Raphael represented ancient Greek cosmology in one of the most famous paintings of the High Renaissance at the Vatican in Rome. We show how Raphael uses “the School of Athens” Read more…
| 3 pm Saturday 22 March 2025 | in Brunswick | Guest Speaker: Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides | Bookings Essential CLOSED | Donations Accepted |
The session explores Plato’s representation of Socrates as a drunken follower of Dionysus in the Symposium, a description that opposes his statement that Socrates was never seen drunk (p. 220a). Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides will trace Plato’s use of drunkenness as a metaphor for philosophical initiation across his dialogues, notably the Phaedrus, the Phaedo, and the Laws.
(more…)| 1pm Saturday 23 November | Plato Players of the Platonic Academy | FOPA | Tickets | Eros, the god of loving desire is celebrated at a drinking party. But as our symposium opens, it’s not quite the orgy one might expect of Ancient Athenian lads, for the guests are Read more…