Date/Time
Date(s) - 28 Jan 2016
7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Columbia University Faculty House
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Thursday, January 28, 7:30pm
Iakovos Vasiliou (CUNY), Seminar in Classical Civilization
“Plato on Loving Socrates”
Faculty House (please check the signs in the lobby for precise location)
Prof. Vasiliou kindly shared an abstract of his upcoming talk:
“While the Symposium is reasonably the dialogue scholars turn to most for understanding Plato on love, I want to think about the Symposium as a dialogue that assembles lovers and devotees of Socrates with a view to examining what the text says to the reader about how best to love Socrates. Given this focus, I shall also discuss the Phaedo, a dialogue not typically treated in discussions of Plato on love, but which is the only other dialogue also to assemble together all and only lovers and devotees of Socrates. I shall argue that despite Plato’s own notorious absence from the dialogues, thinking about how he depicts the assembled lovers of Socrates makes him in fact very present as part of a demonstration that he is the greatest lover of Socrates of all.”
The evening will begin with drinks at 5:45 PM at the fourth-floor dining room of Faculty House, followed by dinner at 6:15 PM. Please email our rapporteur, Anna Conser ([email protected]) by noon on Monday, January 25th, in order to make a dinner reservation. Note that the price of the meal is $25, payable by check to “Columbia University.”
Professor Vasiliou’s lecture will begin promptly at 7:30 PM.