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The Symposium Paperback - 1999
by Plato; Gill, Christopher (Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by)
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Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Christopher Gill.
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- Title The Symposium
- Author Plato; Gill, Christopher (Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books; Penguin Classics Series, Harmondsworth
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 115920
- ISBN 9780140449273 / 0140449272
- Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
- Dimensions 7.77 x 5.1 x 0.35 in (19.74 x 12.95 x 0.89 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1250
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Love, Socrates
- Dewey Decimal Code 184
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Summary
In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerges a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts. The discussion culminates in a radical challenge to conventional views by Plato's mentor, Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual love. The Symposium is a deft interweaving of different viewpoints and ideas about the nature of love—as a response to beauty, a cosmic force, a motive for social action and as a means of ethical education.