One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner party in Athens in 416 B.C. at which the guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor, Socrates--playfully discuss the nature of eros, or love. Dr. Pelliccia's revision of Benjamin Jowett's translation renders the piece into one voice, making it neither too colloquial nor too literal.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Greek
Original Language: Greek
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One of the most famous works of literature in the Western world, Plato's Symposium is also one of the most entertaining. The scene is a dinner party in Athens in 416 B.C. at which the guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor, Socrates--playfully discuss the nature of eros, or love. Dr. Pelliccia's revision of Benjamin Jowett's translation renders the piece into one voice, making it neither too colloquial nor too literal.
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This review is from: Plato's Symposium (Modern Library) (Hardcover)
This was the first book of Ancient Greece I read, when I was rather young. It was the great intellectual shock of my life (together with discovering that you could use mathematics to describe nature). I continue reading it every now and then. What stunned me then (and now!) is that you could perfectly enter that discussion (with your modern knowledge, that is) and take profit of it. They would welcome you, they were tolerant. An eminent Italian journalist, Augusto Guerriero, used to state: everything there was to say has been already said, and better, by the Greek. I couldn't agree more.
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