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Symposium

Symposium( )
Author: Plato,
Waterfield, Robin
Series title:Oxford World's Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-282908-5
Publication Date:Jan 1994
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $6.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical
Family & Relationships / Love & Romance
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):11.582 x 18.11 x 0.719 cm
Book Weight:0.087 Kilograms



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