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 | Symposium (Oxford World's Classics) by Robin Waterfield Plato, Robin Waterfield (Translator), And Notes) Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-19-283427-4 / 0192834274 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283427-0 / 9780192834270 In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous acc | |