id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt nc580k25j0c Christopher Thomas Brophy Perilous Ascent: The Education of Erōs in Plato's Symposium 2020 .txt text/plain 418 21 51 Analyzing the preliminary speeches as an explanation of the nature of erotic ascent reveals a unique and important contribution to the study of Symposium. Reading Symposium through the lens of poles supporting the rungs of Socrates's ladder highlights the political and legal elements of the dialogue. cache/nc580k25j0c.txt txt/nc580k25j0c.txt