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 …
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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.
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The Symposium (Penguin Classics)
144 pages
Published Oct. 1, 1999 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-14-044616-6Copied ISBN!
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- 42416425
Symposium
185 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1980 by Cambridge University Press.
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- 978-0-521-20081-3Copied ISBN!
Symposium (Oxford World's Classics)
160 pages
English language
Published May 22, 1998 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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- 978-0-19-283427-0Copied ISBN!
The Symposium (Penguin Classics)
144 pages
English language
Published April 29, 2003 by Penguin Classics.
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- 978-0-14-044927-3Copied ISBN!
Symposium
104 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1994 by Oxford University Press.
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- 978-0-19-282908-5Copied ISBN!
Symposium
231 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1998 by Aris & Phillips.
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- 978-0-85668-615-3Copied ISBN!
The Symposium.
121 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1956 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-044024-9Copied ISBN!
The symposium
178 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1991 by Yale University Press.
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- 978-0-300-04874-2Copied ISBN!
Symposion
169 pages
German language
Published April 9, 2000 by F. Meiner Verlag.
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- 978-3-7873-1445-4Copied ISBN!
Symposium
64 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1956 by Bobbs-Merrill Educational Publishing.
The symposium ; and, The Phaedo
116 pages
English, Ancient Greek language
Published April 9, 1980 by AHM Pub. Corp..
The Symposium of Plato
179 pages
English language
Published April 9, 1932 by Heffer.
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- 978-0-85270-039-6Copied ISBN!
Plato's Symposium
Audio cassette
Published July 9, 2003 by Agora Publications, Inc..
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- 978-1-887250-30-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 57968616
Symposium of Plato =
English language
Published April 9, 1989 by University of California Press.
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- 978-0-520-06994-7Copied ISBN!
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