Publisher's Synopsis
"At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet"
― Plato, The Symposium
The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato that depicts a series of speeches on Love, or Eros- the God of love and desire.
"The story's setting is at a symposium- or the part of a banquet that took place after the meal. It is narrated by Apollodorus, to an unnamed friend.
The seven main characters- Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates, and Alcibiades, all delivered speeches about love.
Some of the arguments involved the distinction between Common Love and Heavenly Love and how love isn't restricted to human interactions. There are many mentions of Greek Mythology. One of them is Aristophane´s speech of the myth that says that people originally had twice the face, hands, and legs than they have now. Threatened by their power, Zeus cut them in half. Now, people spend their lives looking for their other half- suggesting the existence of soulmates.
The party involved drinking, and so at one point, some of them fall down drunk, some fell asleep and one even delivered a eulogy to another.
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