Bibliograph

Symposium, Plato ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield

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Symposium, Plato ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xlv) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Symposium

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

191752410

Responsibility statement

Plato ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield

Series statement

Oxford world's classics

Summary

In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and 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 a brilliant sketch of Socrates himself by a drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time. Engaging the reader on every page, this new translation conveys the power, humor, and pathos of Plato's creation and is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction

Table Of Contents

Preface -- Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Symposium -- Explanatory notes -- Index of names

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