Book · 380 BC · Nonfiction

The Symposium

Name: The Symposium
Author: Plato

Yale University Press · 192 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Athenians take turns praising love at a drinking party. The comic poet Aristophanes says we were once double creatures split in two, still hunting our other half, and romance repeats him still.

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380 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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