No. 34 (2024): Eros and other demons or The Peripeteia of the Symposium: from Plato to the 20th Century

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.