Plato: Lysis

Blog: https://psychreviews.org/plato-lysis/

What is friendship, and why do we seek it? Lysis doesn’t answer the question—but it reveals how hard it is to ask it well.

Intro: 0:00
What is a friend?: 0:50
Friendship and Power in Ancient Greece: 2:50
Lysis: 19:00
Tending to Souls: A Platonic Friendship: 39:31

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Resources:

Plato on Love: Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with Selections from Republic and Laws - Plato: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780872207882/

Plato's Dialogue on Friendship - David Bolotin: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780801495618/

Walker, Matthew D. (2020). Socrates' Lesson to Hippothales in Plato's Lysis. Classical Philology 115 (3):551-566.

Payne, A. (2023). Philia as fellowship in plato’s lysis. Revista Archai, (32).

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Golden, M. (1985). PAIS, «CHILD» AND «SLAVE». L’Antiquité Classique, 54, 91–104.

Dialogues of the Courtesans (Dialogi Meretricii), Lucian, [Section 5] The Works of Lucian of Samosata, translated by Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), Oxford edition of 1905 https://topostext.org/work/352

Aristophanes' Wasps: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0044%3Acard%3D1292

Greek Homosexuality - Ken Dover: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780674362703/