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 | Symposium (Oxford World's Classics) (1st Edition) by Robin (Translator) Plato/ Waterfield, Plato Staff Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-19-954019-5 / 0199540195 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954019-8 / 9780199540198 In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates i | |