Platons Gastmahl by Plato
"Platons Gastmahl" by Plato is a dialogue written in ancient Greece. At a memorable banquet in 416 BCE Athens, guests take turns delivering speeches about Eros, the god of love. Each speaker presents different theories about erotic love from their own perspective. The comic poet Aristophanes tells his famous myth of the spherical humans split in two. Sokrates shares wisdom from Diotima about a philosophical path ascending from physical beauty to absolute
Beauty itself. The gathering ends unexpectedly when the drunken politician Alkibiades arrives to praise Sokrates rather than Eros. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Plato, 428? BCE-348? BCE |
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| Translator | Kassner, Rudolf, 1873-1959 |
| Title | Platons Gastmahl |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposion_(Platon) |
| Credits |
Produced by Jana Srna, Andrew Sly, Alexander Bauer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | BD: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Speculative Philosophy, General Philosophical works |
| Subject | Classical literature |
| Subject | Philosophy |
| Subject | Plato |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 24899 |
| Release Date | Mar 23, 2008 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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