Plato's Symposium(English, Paperback, Hunter)

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Plato's Symposium(English, Paperback, Hunter) is written by Hunter and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195160800 (ISBN 10) and 9780195160802 (ISBN 13).

Plato's Symposium tells of a dinner party at a crucial point in Athenian history at which the guests decide that they will each in turn deliver a speech in praise of love. The humourous and brilliant work that follows points the way towards all Western thinking about love. The Symposium is also one of Plato's most sophisticated meditations on the practice of philosophy. This book introduces the literary and historical context of Plato's work, surveys and explains the arguments, and considers why Plato has cast this work in a highly unusual narrative form. A final chapter traces the influence of the Symposium from antiquity to the modern day. No knowledge of Greek or Greek philosophy is required.