When it comes to designing online classes, I'm a bit on the over-achiever side. For every 2-hour videoconference class session, I produce a 25-40 slide presentation. I also create video content, lesson pages, and handouts on the material we're studying. Ok. . . so more than a bit . . . But my obsession is your gain, since I'm posting some of those resources here, free of charge, open-access.
Handouts On Plato's Symposium
It can be quite useful as you're making your way through this delightful dialogue on Love to have some overviews. I created this entire set a few years ago, when teaching a course specifically on Love, Friendship, and Desire, and covering this text in particular. I've now uploaded and posted them in my Academia portfolio. I hope you find them useful.- Structure and Characters of the Symposium
- Phaedrus' Speech in the Symposium
- Pausanius' Speech in the Symposium
- Eryximachus' Speech in the Symposium
- Aristophanes' Speech in the Symposium
- Agathon's Speech in the Symposium
- Socrates' (and Diotima's) Speech in the Symposium
- Alcibiades' Speech in the Symposium
Videos on Plato's Symposium
I also produced an entire sequence of videos for the class, focused on specific issues, ideas or aspects in the Symposium.- Narrative Framework in Plato's Symposium
- Style and Content of the Symposium Speeches
- How and Why Love Should Be Praised
- Love, Nobility, and Virtue (Phaedrus' speech)
- Is the Lover or Beloved Greater (Phaedrus' speech)
- Heavenly and Earthly Love (Pausanius' speech)
- Laws and the Love of Youth (Pausanius' speech)
- Paradoxes of Love (Pausanius' speech)
- Healthy and Diseased Love (Eryximachus' speech)
- Love, Music, and Medicine in Plato's Symposium (Eryximachus' speech)
- Love as a Cosmic Phenomenon in Plato's Symposium (Eryximachus' speech)
- Love as a Desire for Lost Unity (Aristophanes' speech)
- Three Types of Men and Women in Plato's Symposium (Aristophanes' speech)
- Politics and the Love of Men in Plato's Symposium (Aristophanes' speech)
- Love's Youth, Delicacy, and Suppleness in Plato's Symposium (Agathon's speech)
- Love as Master of the Virtues in Plato's Symposium (Agathon's speech)
- Love as Lack of the Good in Plato's Symposium (Agathon and Socrates)
- Love as Mediator in Plato's Symposium (Socrates' speech)
- Love, Poetry, and Procreation in Plato's Symposium (Socrates' speech)
- The Ladder of Love in Plato's Symposium (Socrates' speech)
- Socrates the Lover in Plato's Symposium (Alcibiades' speech)
- Socrates' Ugliness and Beauty in the Symposium (Alcibiades' speech)
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