Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I. Plato’s Symposium -- 1. Introduction (172a-173e) -- 2. Phaedrus / Pausanias / Eryximachus (174a-188e) -- 3. Aristophanes / Agathon (189a-197e) -- 4. Socrates (Diotima) (198a-212a) -- 5. Alcibiades (212b-223d) -- Part II. Plato’s Statesman -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Initial Divisions (257a-259d) -- 3. The Mathematical Comedy of Animals (259e-268e) -- 4. The Myth of Cosmic Revolutions (269a-276e) -- 5. Paradigms (277a-291c) -- 6. The Weaver of the Sόnlw (291d-311c) -- Editor’s Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Greek Terms -- About the Author.
Brilliantly original, Sallis’s close readings of Plato’s dialogues are grounded in the original passages and illuminate the overarching themes that drive the dialogues..