The Leo Strauss Foundation & Boston College put together this online discussion of a new release, course notes Strauss prepared for a course on the Symposium he taught in 1959 & a version of which he agreed to publish, but never got around to it, but, edited by Seth Benardete, it
Thank you, Titus. I have only read bits of Strauss's Symposium book. Many have read Allan Bloom's essays on the Symposium, available in couple different volumes, which are excellent, but one forgotten study which I found immensely helpful, is Mark Lutz's chapters on the dialogue in his Socrates's Education to Virtue, which pairs these with chapters on the Alcibiades I.
Thank you, Titus. I have only read bits of Strauss's Symposium book. Many have read Allan Bloom's essays on the Symposium, available in couple different volumes, which are excellent, but one forgotten study which I found immensely helpful, is Mark Lutz's chapters on the dialogue in his Socrates's Education to Virtue, which pairs these with chapters on the Alcibiades I.
Good pair -- never read Lutz, thanks for the rec!