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Symposiaca - R. E. Allen (tr.): The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 2: The Symposium. Translated with Comment. Pp. xii + 178; 1 illustration. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991. £16.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

Harold Tarrant
Affiliation:
University of Sydney

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1 Except when joining the string of scholars to criticize Martha Nussbaum's The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge, 1986), pp. 99–102. Note A.'s p. 100: ‘If Plato were as slipshod in argument as this, why bother to read him?’ What of Nussbaum?

2 More accurately, different images of virtue. Agathon adds an image of wisdom.

3 Much like the experience of the beauty of further bodies, mentioned at 211c but omitted at 210ab.

4 What of intercourse between men and sterile or post-menopausal women? (cf. Resp. 461 bc).