Index of subjects

adultery 25

appearance (contrasted with reality) 33, 55, 58

ascent of desire xx, xxiv, xxvi, 48–50

astronomy 21

athletics xvii, 42

beauty, beautiful xii, xiii, xiv, xix n. 21, xx–xxii, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, 3, 10, 18, 28, 30, 31, 32, 36, 38, 41, 43–44, 47–50, 51, 56, 58

belief 37

(the) beloved viii, 9, 11, 13–14, 15–17, 25–26, 50, 56

birth, giving 31, 43–44, 47–48, 49–50

body 12, 13, 15, 18–19, 22–24, 30, 44–46, 47, 48–49

boy, youth, young man 16, 25, 48, 49, 50, 63

bravery see courage

character x, xxviii, 16, 17, 29

cicadas 24

comedy 26, 63

conception 24, 39, 44, 47

contemplation xiii, xx, xxii, xxiv, xxv

copulation 45

courage, bravery, valour xiii, 9–11, 25, 30, 50, 60

cowardice 9, 14

craft, craftsman 31, 39, 42, 47, 54

dating of Symposium vii n. 3, 2 nn. 4, 6, 26 n. 109

democracy 14 n. 66

desire ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, xx, xxii, xxiv–xxv, 18, 24, 25–26, 31, 34–36, 40–46

disease 18–19, 21, 37, 43

divination xiii, 21, 31, 39

dreams 5

drinking, drunkenness 6–7, 39, 51–53, 59, 63

dualism 18–21

education ix, xxvi, xxviii, 14 n. 65, 17, 20, 47

elenchus x, 33–36

encomium x

excellence xi–xii, xiii, xxiii–xxiv, xxv, xxviii, 11, 16–17

see also virtue

fame see honour

fine and good 40, 61

Forms, Ideas xx–xxii, xxv, xxviii

generation 45–46

(the) good xvii–xviii, xxiii–xxiv, 36, 41, 42–44

(the) good life ix–x, xxviii, 50

see also happiness

gratify, grant sexual favours to 13–17, 18, 20, 21, 58

gymnasia, gymnastics 14, 19

happiness ix–x, xi, xiii, xiv–xviii, xx, xxiii, xxv, 11, 21, 26, 28, 38, 41, 42, 46

harmony 19–21

health 18–19, 20–21

heavenly love 11–13, 17, 20

heroes see Glossary of names

hiccups 18, 22

historical background viii, xxvii

homosexuality

female 25

male viii–ix, xxvi, 12

and passim

see also pederasty

honour xi, xxiv, xxv, xxvii–xxviii, 9–11, 46–48, 50

Ideas see Forms

ignorance 33, 37, 38, 40, 41

Socratic ignorance 55, 56, 58

immortality xviii, 38, 44, 45–48, 50

initiation 48, 54

injustice 30

insolence (hubris) 6 n. 16, 23, 58

see also irony, sarcasm

inspiration 10, 12, 20 n. 92, 47 n. 192

irony, sarcasm 6, 56 n. 209

see also insolence

justice 17, 21, 47

knowledge xx–xxii, xxiii n. 26, 19, 20, 21, 38, 40, 45, 46, 49, 50

law 13–14, 30, 48

love, lover passim

magic 39, 40

marriage 25, 47

medicine xii, xiii, 6, 18, 19, 31

moderation, moderate 21, 23, 47

money 2, 15–16, 17, 42, 46

music 19–20, 54–55

mysteries xvii n. 19

see also Glossary of names

myth 10, 23, 32

see also Gods and Heroes in Glossary of names

necessity 29, 30 n. 123, 31

opinion 37

oracles see Socrates in Glossary of names

see also divination; magic

pederasty 10–18 see passim

personification 7 n. 24, 39 n. 157

philosopher, philosophy x, xiii, xvii, xxvi, 2, 14, 16 n. 73, 41, 42, 57

piety, impiety 21

poetry xiii, 42

poets 7, 8-9, 19, 29, 30, 42, 47–48, 63 see for individuals Glossary of names

politics, politician xiii, 15, 16, 25, 55

prayer 6, 60

pregnancy xix, 39, 44–48

priests 39

procreation 39, 44-45

prophecy see divination

rhetoric 17

riches, rich see wealth

right and wrong 12–17, 19

sacrifices 2, 21, 22, 23, 31, 37, 39

sarcasm see irony

satyrs and sileni see Glossary of names

setting vii–viii

seer see divination

sex passim

shame 9, 16, 17, 25, 32, 55, 56, 58

sileni see Satyrs in Glossary of names

sober 52, 53, 62

sophists 7, 40, 46

soul xi, xii, 10, 12, 15, 18, 29, 44–48

see also character

speeches see Glossary of names; Phaedrus; Pausanias; Eryximachus; Aristophanes; Agathon; Socrates

spirit 39

symposium vii–ix, 4–6

tallies 25, 26

theatre 27–28

tyranny 14

virtue (arete) xii, xix, xxii, 9, 16 n. 72, 30, 47, 48, 50, 61

see also excellence

wealth x, 2, 9, 17, 35, 40, 57

wisdom x, xi, xii, xiv, xxviii, 5, 16–17, 30, 31, 37, 40, 41, 43, 47, 49, 51, 59

women 7, 10, 12, 13, 25, 26, 46

wrestling 56

young man see boy

youth see boy