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Cover artist: The cover shows Aristotle and Plato seated round Philosophy, a detail from an illuminated manuscript in the Bibliothèque de Chantilly (Snark International)
Blurb:TRANSLATED BY WALTER HAMILTON
Of all the Greek philosophers Plato (427-347 B.C.) was perhaps the greatest. The Symposium - a masterpiece of dramatic dialogue - is set at a dinner party to which are invited several of the literary celebrities of Athenian society. After dinner it is proposed that each member of the company should make a speech in praise of love. A full discussion follows and the dialogue ends with a brilliant character sketch of Socrates by Alcibiades.
Throughout Plato reveals, as few other authors have done, the beauty, power, and flexibility of Greek prose.