Plato's language of love and the female

Harvard Theological Review

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 231-261

  Finkelberg, Margalit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1017/s0017816000006337     Document Type: Review

References (24)

1. See Plato Phaedr. 255-56
2. Compare Kenneth J. Dover, Greek Homosexuality (London: Duckworth, 1978) 81-109
3. See Georg F. Rettig, Platonis Symposion (Halle: Orphantotropheas, 1875) 117
4. Aeschylus Eumen. 658-62
5. see also Geoffrey S. Kirk, John E. Raven, and Malcolm Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers (2d ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 354-55
6. See Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, Science, Folklore and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 58-111
7. Rettig, Platonis Symposion, 115
8. see Kenneth Dover, Plato: Symposium (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) 93
9. Plato Symp. 204c. 1-6
10. On the Pythagorean table of opposites, see Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd, Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971) 48-51
11. Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972) 51-52
12. See Guthrie, History of Greek Philosophy, 4. 148
13. See also Lloyd, Science, Folklore and ideology, 86: "His [Aristotle's] particular definition of the female in terms of incapacity, his idea of the relationship between male and female as not just analogous to, but an example of, that between form and matter, and his development of the idea that the male is the efficient cause in reproduction all involve or incorporate new conceptions."
14. See Charles H. Kahn, "The Place of the Prime Mover in Aristotle's Teleology," in Allan Gotthelf, ed., Aristotle on Nature and Living Things (Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1985) 183-205
15. For the discussion, see Cornford, Plato's Cosmology, 187-88
16. See John Dillon, The Middle Platonisls (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977) 199, 203-5, 208, 229-30
17. See John Glucker, Antiochus and the Late Academy (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978) 256-80
18. Dillon, Middle Platonists, 164)
19. Kenneth M. Sayre, "Plato's Dialogues in the Light of the Seventh Letter," in Charles L. Griswold, Jr., ed., Platonic Writings: Platonic Readings (London: Routledge, 1988) 107
20. See Kahn, "Prime Mover in Aristotle's Teleology," 199
21. Des Places, "Platon et la langue des mystères," 91: "At the beginning of the great revelation which ends her speech, Diotima, the prophetess from Mantinea, introduces the epopsy she promised to Socrates. . . in terms that should have spoken to the heart of Eleusinian initiates."
22. See also Cornford, "Doctrine of Eros," 128
23. See the study by Jane Ellen Harrison, "Mystica vannus Jacchi," JHS 23 (1903) 292-324
24. Kerényi, Eleusis, 98