Elephant & Castle

edited by Paolo Cesaretti (Università degli studi di Bergamo), Ioannis M. Konstantakos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Cecilia Nobili (Università degli studi di Bergamo).

A theatrical experience featuring the staging of Plato's Symposium at the University of Bergamo provides an opportunity to reflect on this text and its elements of "theatricality," on the resonance it continues to manifest in European culture after centuries, and on the symposium itself as a cornerstone institution of Greco-Roman culture and beyond. The collection of contributions gathered in this volume, authored by scholars from various disciplines, offers a new perspective on the symposium in its broader dimensions—ritual, diachronic, and geographically widespread—and echoes the voices of Socrates and Diotima, not only in theater but also in art, literature, and philosophy.