I am gathering and developing these resources as I am studying Plato’s Symposium as part of the 2009 OU Course A396.
(N.B. These are not official Open University resources.)
Recommended Reading
Set books for the 2009 A396 course and others I found useful.
Plato’s Symposium
Greek Language
Collaborative Translation
This is a collaborative translation of the set readings for the Symposium (all the extracts that were set for the OU Course). It is being done by a group of students studying A396 course in 2009
Collaborative Translation
Plato’s Symposium Blog
An area for discussing the Symposium, its characters and their speeches. There are also a great number of useful links to be found at this blog.
Symposium Blog
Perseus Linked Text
The Greek text of the selected extracts for Plato’s Symposium with hyperlinks to morphology and dictionary definitions for each word. You can view various English translations and commentaries here too – once you get to Perseus, click on the word ‘load’ to the right of whatever you want to view.
Week 23 172a1 – 173b8
Week 24 176a1 – 176e10
Week 26 189c3 – 190a3 and 190b5 – 190c6
Week 27 191a5 – 192b5
Week 28 192b5 – 192e8 and 193b7 – 193d6
Week 29 203a8 – 204a6
Week 30 212d5 – 213c5
Week 31a 219d3 – 220d5
Week 31b 223b1 – 223d11
Please post comments including links to any useful resources you have found. Thanks 
