Symposium

Name: Symposium
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Author: Plato
ISBN: 9789629547431

Author: Plato

Narrator: David Shaw Parker, and full cast

Unabridged: 2 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party held by Agathon to celebrate his victory in the drama festival of the Dionysia. They talk about love until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in, and decides to talk about Socrates instead. Symposium gives a picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. This classic discussion on love is presented in its ideal medium: a multi-voice recording.

About Plato

Plato (427-347 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer, and student of Socrates. Most of his works, which form some of the core foundations of Western philosophy, are written in the form of dialogues, in which Socrates often figures prominently. His best-known writings include the Republic, the Apology, the Symposium, Crito, and Statesman. Plato's work addresses such diverse themes as the nature of love, human knowledge and understanding, and the ideal form of government.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on May 01, 2024

Plato’s Symposium is one of the most loved classics from the ancient world, a work of consummate beauty as both philosophy and as literature, most appropriate since the topic of this dialogue is the nature of love and includes much philosophizing on beauty. In the spirit of freshness, I will focus o......more

Goodreads review by Manny on July 28, 2014

OPRAH: Good evening and welcome to What's the Most Spiritual Book of All Time? For people who missed last week's exciting semi-final round, The Sermon on the Mount beat The Bhagavad Gita 4-1 while Jonathan Livingston Seagull unexpectedly lost 3-2 to outsider The Symposium. Let's all welcome our fina......more

Goodreads review by calypso on April 27, 2024

plato really said “fuck socrates” and meant that literally......more