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Symposium

by Plato

Philosophy

Open Library OL51815W

Symposium depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable Athenian men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and statesman Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes.

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