Symposium
By Plato
First written c. 385–370 BCE
About this book
Plato’s dialogue of speeches in praise of love at a drinking party, culminating in Socrates’ account of the teaching of Diotima: the ascent of love from beautiful bodies to beautiful souls and knowledge, and finally to Beauty itself.
The edition
- Title
- Symposium
- Translated by
- Benjamin Jowett
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press, Oxford
- Year
- 1871
- Edition
- In The Dialogues of Plato
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