Lysis

Plato

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Adams, Don. "The Lysis Puzzles." History of Philosophy Quarterly. 9 no. 1 (1992): 3–17.

Bolotin, David. Plato's Dialogue on Friendship. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979.

Dover, K.J. Greek Homosexuality. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Gonzalez, Francisco J. "Plato's Lysis: An Enactment of Philosophical Kinship." Ancient Philosophy. 15 no. 1: 69–90.

Haden, James. "Friendship in Plato's Lysis." Review of Metaphysics. 37 (1983): 327–356.

Plato, Lysis, Phaedrus, and Symposium. Translated by Benjamin Jowett, with selected retranslation by Eugene O'Connor. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1991.

Reshotko, Naomi. "Plato's Lysis: A Socratic Treatise on Desire and Attraction." Apeiron. 30, no. 1 (1997): 1–17.

———. "The Good, the Bad, and the Neither Good nor Bad in Plato's Lysis." Southern Journal of Philosophy. 38, no. 2 (2000): 251–262.

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