Then, “Apollodorus,” he said, “do you know, I have just been looking for you, as I want to hear all about the banquet that brought together Agathon and Socrates and Alcibiades and the rest of that party, and what were the speeches they delivered upon love. 172a APOLLODORUS: I believe I have got the story you inquire of pretty well by heart.

The day before yesterday I chanced to be going up to town from my house in Phalerum, when one of my acquaintance caught sight of me from behind, some way off, and called in a bantering tone “Hullo, Phalerian! I say, Apollodorus, wait a moment.” So I stopped and waited. Symposia are sometimes defined as banquets, but the official symposium usually occured after the consumption of food and is best understood as a drinking party (1). Publication date 2002 Topics Ancient Western philosophy to c 500, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Philosophy, General, Socrates, History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical, Early works to 1800, Love Publisher South Bend, Ind. Its name, 'symposium,' literally refers to a 'drinking together,' a hint for the defining activity shared by participants of the symposium: the consumption of wine. I believe I have got the story you inquire of pretty well by heart. The symposium of Plato : the Shelley translation.

It's about a contest at a men's banquet, involving impromptu philosophical speeches in praise of Eros, the Greek god of love and sexual desire. 385-370 BC) by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 1993, 2001). Showed in the dialogue, the Symposium is a party held in honor of Agathon accepting a prize towards his first tragedy. Updated on JThe 'ladder of love' occurs in the text Symposium (c.

Plato's Symposium: A Translation with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete, trans.

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