Readings

In addition to being made available on the lecture pages, all of the readings for the course will be compiled below. Additional readings are provided as we come to them. Most of the time you will access the readings for a particular day by clicking on the date link for that day, but it can be handy to have a course master-list.

• Plato: Symposium (from last time)
• Plato, "Phaedrus" (read to 257c)
• Sappho Lobel-Page Fragment 94 (Harris trans. and discussion)
• Theano, "A Letter on Marriage and Fidelity" (pdf)
• Augustine, "The City of God" (excerpt, pdf)
• Jerome, "On Marriage and Virginity"
• Heloise and Abelard Letters (pdf)
• Andreas Capellanus, "The Rules of Love"
• Irving Singer, "The Nature of Love" (excerpt, pdf)
• Shulamith Firestone, "Love: A Feminist Critique"