The Dialogues of Plato: Volume 2 The Symposium & Other Dialogues

Author: Benjamin Jowett (translator)
Publisher: Sphere Books, 1970
Condition: Softcover, foxing on first page, yellowing edges, interior clean
A symposium in Greek, literally means a drinking party. But Plato's Symposium takes the occasion of a drinking party first to praise Love and then to define it. It is a philosophical dialogue, in which meaning is created in the exchange of words between the participants. Each person in turn makes a speech.