- Love, Early works to 1800, Soul, Rhetoric
One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner party in Athens in 416 B.C. at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor, Socrates - playfully discuss the nature of eros, or love.
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- Author
- Plato
- First published
- April 30, 1996
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- L.C.C. Central School of Arts and Crafts, IndyPublish.com, Heimeran
- Editions
- 351
- Language
- fin, lat, Italian, grc
- ISBN
- 9798713300296
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