materiality: Uncovering the Body, Gender and Sexuality in Late Antiquity. In Memoriam Marianne Sághy (1961‒ 2018) (original) (raw)

Both traditional and feminist readings of Platonic eros in the Symposium fail to do justice to the central role that creative generation plays in Plato’s theory. After formulating this interpretation of Plato, I will go on to consider how Plotinus’ views on eros maintain and depart from what I argue is one of the most radical features of the Platonic view. Biography: Grace Ledbetter is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Swarthmore College and Director of the Honors Program. Her work focuses on Plato, Homer, and Greek Tragedy. She is the author of Poetics Before Plato: Authority and Interpretation in Early Greek Theories of Poetry, and most recently of “The Power of Plato’s Cave,” “Truth and Self at Colonus,” and “Translation into Dance: Adaptation and Transnational Hellenism in Balanchine’s Apollo.” Uma Chakravarti: Celibacy, Sexuality and Salvation in Early South Asia: The