Reading: Carson, Eros, the Bittersweet

Background: Plato, Symposium; Phaedrus; Republic, Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy 

Supplemental: Selections from Sappho, Archilochus, Anacreon in West, trans. Greek Lyric

Recommended: 

Greene, “Sappho, Foucault, and Women’s Erotics”

Burrows, “Raiding the Inarticulate”

Morris, “Un-forgetting Asclepius”