Symposium
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
- The banquet
Concerning the things about which you ask to be informed I believe that I am not ill-prepared with an answer. For the day before yesterday …
- The speech of Phaedrus
Phaedrus began by affirming that Love is a mighty god, and wonderful among gods and men, but especially wonderful in his birth. For he is …
- The speech of Pausanias
This, or something like this, was the speech of Phaedrus; and some other speeches followed which Aristodemus did not remember; the next …
- The speech of Eryximachus
Pausanias came to a pause--this is the balanced way in which I have been taught by the wise to speak; and Aristodemus said that the turn of …
- The speech of Aristophanes
Aristophanes professed to open another vein of discourse; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike that either of Pausanias or …
- The speech of Agathon
Socrates said: You played your part well, Eryximachus; but if you were as I am now, or rather as I shall be when Agathon has spoken, you …
- Socrates and Diotima
When Agathon had done speaking, Aristodemus said that there was a general cheer; the young man was thought to have spoken in a manner …
- Alcibiades
When Socrates had done speaking, the company applauded, and Aristophanes was beginning to say something in answer to the allusion which …
Cite this text
Plato. Symposium. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society. https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/symposium-jowett.
Plato, Symposium, trans. Benjamin Jowett, The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, https://www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/symposium-jowett.
Plato. Symposium. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. The Library, Unitive Knowledge Society, www.unitiveknowledge.org/library/texts/symposium-jowett.
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