Sipping Socratic Philosophy: Plato and Drunkenness
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.
