In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests—including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates—each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness, and a brilliant sketch of Socrates himself by a drunken Alcibiades, the most popular and notorious Athenian of the time. Engaging the reader on every page, this new translation conveys the po Symposium - Plato od authora Plato a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
| Autor |
Plato |
| Jazyk |
anglický |
| Počet stran |
160 |
| Rok vydání |
2008 |
| Nakladatelství |
Oxford University Press |
