# The Symposium

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- Authors: [Platone](https://www.bookquiver.com/platone)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-02-27

## Description

In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerge 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.

## Editions

### The Symposium

- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-753-8
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2006-05-30
- Language: en_US

### The Symposium

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-202-8
- Published: 2005-08-25
- Language: en_GB

### The Symposium

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4102-384-7
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2005-08-25
- Language: en_GB

### The Symposium

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-927-3
- Pages: 144
- Published: 2003-02-27
- Language: en_GB