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The Symposium
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 144 pages | ISBN 9780140449273 | 29 Apr 2003 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
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The Symposium
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. The Symposium Preface
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‘Translated in bright modern English by Christopher Gill’ 
Peter Stothard, Times
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