Part I: The symposium and Plato's philosophy
The symposium as a Socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe
The role of the earlier speeches in theSymposium : Plato's endoxic method? / Frisbee C. C. Sheffield
A platonic reading of Plato's Symposium / Lloyd P. Gerson
Part II: Interpreting Plato's Symposium
Medicine, magic, and religion in Plato's Symposium / Mark L. McPherran
Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's Symposium / Gabriel Richardson Lear
A study in violets : alcibiades in the Symposium / C.D.C. Reeve
Where is Socrates on the "ladder of love"? / Ruby Blondell
Tragedy off-stage / Debra Nails
The virtues of platonic love / Gabriela Roxana Carone
Part III: The Symposium, sex, and gender
Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Plato's Symposium : Paiderastia and Philosophia / Luc Brisson
Female imagery in plato / Angela Hobbs
Plato in the courtroom: the surprising influence of the Symposium on legal theory / Jeffrey carnes
Part IV: The reception of Plato's Symposium
Plato's Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction / Richard Hunter
Some notable afterimages of Plato's Symposium / J.H. Lesher
The hangover of Plato's Symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528) / Diskin Clay
Platonic selves in Shelley and Stevens / David K. O'Connor.
