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In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates'... read more
First Sentence
Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up to town from my home in Phaleron-one of my acquaintances spotted me a long way off from behind and called, playing with his call: "Phalerian," he said.
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- Robin Waterfield (Author)
- Paul Woodruff
- Alan Bloom
- R. L. Hunter (Author)
- Jamey Hecht
- Plato
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