Details

Subject(s)

• Love—Philosophy [Browse]
• Socrates [Browse]

Editor

• Waterfield, Robin, 1952- [Browse]

Series

• Oxford world's classics. [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarly editions online. [More in this series]

Summary note

In his celebrated masterpiece 'Symposium', Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests include the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates. This translation is complemented by full explanatory notes and an illuminating introduction.

Notes

• Previously issued in print: 1994.
• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 17, 2019).

ISBN

0-19-187532-5

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