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Eros and Desire: From Sappho to Foucault

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                           Carson,  Eros the Bittersweet Supplemental readings :  Sappho         Anne Carson on Sappho Archilochus   Anacreon Catullus Recommended :  Huffer, “ Strange Eros: Foucault, Ethics, and the Historical a priori ” Cornford, “The Doctrine of Eros in Plato’s Symposium ” in The Unwritten Philosophy  
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Love and the Soul

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  Plato, Phaedrus (Benjamin Jowett, translation) Recommended :  Pender, “ Sappho and Anacreon in Plato’s Phaedrus ” Lebeck, “ The Central Myth of Plato’s Phaedrus ” Güven, “ Death and Madness in the Phaedo and Phaedrus ” Deavel and Deavel, “ Choosing Love ”  Finbloom, “ Plato’s Phaedrus : A Memory Pharmacy ”
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Hadot: Forms of Life, Forms of Discourse

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  Pierre Hadot, Philosophy as a Way of Life
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Introduction: Become the One You Are

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  Pindar, Pythian II Recommended :   Lourenço, “ A ‘Cloud of Metaphysics’ in Pindar ” Collins, “ On theAesthetics of the Deceiving Self in Nietzsche, Pindar, and Theognis ”  Babich, “ Pindar’s Becoming ”  van den Berge, “ Law, King of All ”
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Classical Values: The Art of Living

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