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Oup Oxford - Symposium | plato

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• In his celebrated masterpiece
• Symposium
• Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests including the comic poet Aristophanes and
• Of course
• Plato's mentor Socrates each deliver a short speech in praise of love
• The 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
• And then into the party bursts the drunken Alcibiades
• The most popular and notorious Athenian of the time
• Who insists on praising Socrates himself rather than love