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The Symposium

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  1. A dialogue by Plato, in which Socrates and several other men at a banquet discuss love.


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But he did say in his dialogue, The Symposium, that it's through love that we come to understand concepts.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2018

Among the most tantalising of the playwrights whose work has disappeared is Agathon – who appears as a character in both Plato’s philosophical dialogue The Symposium and Aristophanes’s comedy Thesmophoriazusae.

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2016

"The Symposium will hopefully coalesce these ongoing but somewhat disjointed efforts towards amphibious capability."

From Reuters • May 20, 2015

The Symposium of Plato is a work of this character, and can with difficulty be rendered in any words but the writer's own.

From Symposium by Jowett, Benjamin

The Symposium is connected with the Phaedrus both in style and subject; they are the only Dialogues of Plato in which the theme of love is discussed at length.

From Symposium by Jowett, Benjamin