Publisher's Synopsis
In Symposium Plato presents an imaginary dinner-party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socrates, and the most popular Athenian of his day, Alcibiades. A sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness.
