Plato's Symposium

✍ Scribed by Hunter, Richard L

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 165
Series: Oxford approaches to classical literature
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Setting the scene --
2. Eros before Socrates --
3. The love of Socrates --
4. The morning after.

✦ Subjects

Plato. -- Symposium;Symposium (Plato)

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