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Author: Plato

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Title: Symposium

Author: Plato

Description: A dinner party where Socrates and his friends take turns praising love, from Aristophanes' split humans to Diotima's ladder of beauty. Plato at his most playful, in Benjamin Jowett's translation.

Pages: 76

Size: 0.76 MB

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