Preview   This study of Xenophon’s Symposium joins the expanding scholarship on Xenophon, focusing on a work that has so far seldom received book-length attention. The Symposium is perhaps the most sophisticated literary creation among Xenophon’s Socratic works, and is a very rich text: it represents not only discussions of eros, beauty, and kalokagathia, but … Continue reading Xenophon’s Socratic rhetoric: virtue, eros, and philosophy in the Symposium