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Symposium

Paperback • 2008 • English • 1. edition

Symposium

By Alexander von Plato

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About the book

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. And then into the party bursts the drunken Alcibiades, the most pop...Show more

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9780199540198

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published year

2008

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Symposium

Format

Paperback

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