The Symposium
by Plato
4/5
Penguin Classics 128 pages April 29, 2003
At a dinner party in ancient Athens, some of history's greatest minds — including Socrates, Aristophanes, and Alcibiades — each deliver speeches on the nature of love. Plato's most literary dialogue gave us the concept of "Platonic love" and the myth of soulmates.
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Ancient Greek philosophers getting tipsy at a dinner party and debating love? Sign Jim up. Aristophanes drops the wildest origin story ever (humans were once four-legged blobs split in half by Zeus), and Socrates somehow still steals the show. Philosophy was a party sport.
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