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By Frisbee C. C. Sheffield,M. C. Howatson

Plato's Symposium, written within the early a part of the 4th century BC, is decided at a consuming social gathering (symposium) attended through a few of the major intellectuals of the day, together with Aristophanes, the comedian dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades, the intense yet (eventually) treacherous baby-kisser. each one visitor offers a speech in compliment of some great benefits of hope and its function within the reliable and chuffed human existence. on the middle of the paintings stands Socrates' compliment of philosophical wish, and a controversy for the prevalence of the philosophical existence because the top path to happiness. This version presents an available and interesting new translation by way of M. C. Howatson, and a considerable creation, by means of Frisbee Sheffield, which courses the reader in the course of the quite a few elements of the discussion and displays on its principal arguments. A chronology and exact notes at the individuals aid to set this enduring paintings in context.

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