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1968

Lysis/Phaedrus/Symposium: Plato on Homosexuality

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Plato - 1968

"And when the other is beside him, he shares his respite from anguish; when he is absent, he likewise shares his longing and being longed for, since he possesses that counterlove which is the image of love, though he supposes it to be friendship rather than love, and calls it by that name" (from the Phaedrus).The nature of love and friendship and their varying manifestations have stimulated philosophical interest for centuries.

How should we understand such concepts as: the beloved, physical beauty, the beauty that transcends the physical, and the power of love between men as the ancient Greeks understood it? In these three dialogues, the Lysis, Phaedrus, and Symposium, Socrates, the gadfly of Athens, searches for the truth about love and friendship. In doing so, he reveals how his Athenian contemporaries regarded homosexual love as an educative, aesthetic, and social force.

The Moon in the Cloud

Rosemary Harris - 1968

Reuben, an animal trainer, travels to Egypt to collect animals for Noah's ark, in return for a promised place on the ark for himself and his wife..

Reuben, an animal trainer, travels to Egypt to collect animals for Noah's ark, in return for a promised place on the ark for himself and his wife.

History of Classical Scholarship: From the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age

Rudolf Pfeiffer - 1968

Taking up the story with the revival of classical studies inspired by Petrarch, Pfeiffer describes the achievements of the Italian humanists and the idependent movement in Holland that culminated in Erasmus and the German scholar-reformers.

He traces the development of classical scholarship in the countries of Western Europe through the next 200 years, with particular attention to sixteenth-century France and eighteenth-century England, and concludes with an account of the new approach made by Winckelmann and his successors in Germany.

The Meaning of Archaeology