Master Class on "Plato's Leaky Myths: How the Erotic Dialogues use Plato's Literary Predecessors"
David O'ConnorUniversity of Notre Dame
Registration Required. Open to current students and faculty.
This seminar will look at striking examples of how in the Symposium and Phaedrus Plato read and re-wrote the myths available in the literary culture of his time. We will be especially interested in how the literary templates that seem to underlie the dialogues complicate their surface "doctrine."
SCHEDULE
1:30pm Coffee & Pastries
2:00pm Session I
3:25pm Break
3:35pm Session II
5:00pm End, wine and cheese reception
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David K. O’Connor is a faculty member in the departments of Philosophy and Classics at the University of Notre Dame. His teaching and writing focus on ancient philosophy, aesthetics, ethics and politics, and philosophy of religion. Dr. O’Connor's online lectures on love and sexuality have reached a wide international audience, and are the basis of his two recent books, Love is Barefoot Philosophy (in Chinese translation, 2014) and Plato’s Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love (2015). He has also published extensively on the relation between philosophy, art, and literature, in both the ancient and the modern world.
