1. Plato’s Symposium Commentary (14.1 mb pdf, 28Jan24)

This commentary includes the full OCT (Oxford  Classical Text) Greek text on the left (verso) page and corresponding vocabulary and notes on the right (recto) page. Since it was the first commentary in this series, it does not have a running high frequency list (occurring 7 or more times) but only an alphabetized list of the same words in the glossary.

2. SymposiumCoreVocabulary : 7 or more times in the Symposium (.pdf)

This file contains the six-page core alphabetized vocab list from the glossary of the commentary above.

3. Recommend changes directly on a pdf of Symposium commentary (Adobe pdf online)

4. Symposium Core Vocab Flashcards: Powerpoint Presentations (.zip file, 1.8 mb)

These presentations contain core vocabulary flashcard slides (one slide Greek, the next slide Greek and English definition) for all nine pages of the core vocabulary in the Symposium. Readers must download the SPIonic font (available free online) to view these slide shows.

5.  Symposium Core Vocab Flashcards: .jpg images (20 MB, .zip, .jpg)

This .zip file contains nine folders corresponding to the nine pages of core vocabulary. Within the folders are paired .jpg flashcards (see the examples below) for all of the core vocabulary words. View these on a computer or upload them as photos onto an smartphone and view them sequentially.

6. Symposium vocabulary (3 to 6 times)  (.pdf)

This file contains a four-page vocabulary list of all words occurring 3 to 6 times in the Symposium. Within the commentary, these words are marked by an asterisk on the facing pages but not isolated into a core list. Readers who have reviewed the core vocabulary (7 or more times) and wish to continue their review of vocabulary should consult this 3-to-6 times list.