
The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature
M. C. Howatson
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The Symposium
by M. C. Howatson, Frisbee C. C. Sheffield
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Plato's Symposium, written in the early part of the 4th century BC, is set at a drinking party (symposium) attended by some of the leading intellectuals of the day, including Aristophanes, the comic dramatist, Socrates, Plato's mentor, and Alcibiades, the brilliant but (eventually) treacherous politician. Each guest gives a speech in praise of the benefits of desire and its role in the good and happy human life.
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