The Symposium
by Plato
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0140440240
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440249
- Seller
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 039253
- Title
- The Symposium
- Author
- Plato
- Illustrator
- Trans.Walter Hamilton
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0140440240
- ISBN 13
- 9780140440249
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- GREECE GREEK PHILOSOPHY PLATO SYMPOSIUM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greek Philosophy; Socrates; Plato;
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