There are still places available for our Winter Term course Platonic Love starting Monday 7 July (in Carlton and online). [BOOKED OUT] Perhaps your caught the stage play version of the Symposium last year. Now you can read the original. We will also be reading another of Plato’s most vivid dialogues, the Phaedrus. 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.
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