Symposium

Plato

⏱ 8 minWisdom classic

At an all-night drinking party, the guests take turns praising love, from Aristophanes's myth of the sundered halves to Socrates's ladder that climbs from one beautiful body to Beauty itself. Plato's dialogue on Eros.

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