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Symposium
Συμπόσιον
At the house of the poet Agathon, celebrating his victory in the tragic contest of 416 BC, the guests deliver speeches in honour of Eros: Phaedrus, Pausanias, the physician Eryximachus, Aristophanes with the myth of spherical beings cut in two, Agathon, and Socrates, who relays the teaching of the priestess Diotima on the ladder of love, from one beautiful body to Beauty itself. It closes with the entry of a drunken Alcibiades, who delivers a eulogy of Socrates. A literary masterpiece and source of the whole Western mysticism of love.
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Authentic: modern scholarship accepts it almost unanimously as Plato's work.
Editions and translations
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English
Symposium
Hackett, 2003
Translation: Alexander Nehamas y Paul Woodruff
ISBN 9780872200760
The Symposium
Penguin Classics, 2003
Translation: Christopher Gill
ISBN 9780140449273
Plato: Complete Works
Hackett, 1997
Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)
ISBN 0872203492
Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas
Plato III: Lysis, Symposium, Gorgias
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library), 1970
Translation: W. R. M. Lamb
ISBN 9780674991842
Loeb Classical Library 166, bilingüe (1.ª ed. 1925; reimpresión)
Plato
Symposium
The Conscious LibrarySymposium
Clarendon Press (Oxford), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
The Dialogues of Plato, 3.ª ed., vol. 1; traducción de dominio público
Español
Plato
El banquete o del amor
The Conscious LibraryEl banquete o del amor
Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Obras completas de Platón, tomo 5; traducción de dominio público
El banquete
Alianza Editorial, 1989
ISBN 9788420636627
Plato
Diálogos III: Fedón, Banquete, Fedro
The Conscious LibraryDiálogos III: Fedón, Banquete, Fedro
Gredos, 1998
ISBN 9788424910365
Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 93
El banquete
Gredos, 2014
ISBN 9788424926373
Other works by Plato
- Euthyphro · 395
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 380
- Cratylus · 385
- Theaetetus · 368
- Sophist · 360
- Statesman · 360
- Parmenides · 370
- Philebus · 355
- Phaedrus · 370
- Alcibiades I
- Alcibiades II
- Hipparchus
- Rival Lovers (Lovers)
- Theages
- Charmides · 390
- Laches · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Euthydemus · 385
- Protagoras · 390
- Gorgias · 387
- Meno · 385
- Hippias Major · 390
- Hippias Minor · 395
- Ion · 395
- Menexenus · 386
- Clitophon
- Republic · 375
- Timaeus · 360
- Critias · 360
- Minos
- Laws · 350
- Epinomis · 345
- Letter I (to Dionysius II)
- Letter II (to Dionysius II)
- Letter III (to Dionysius II)
- Letter IV (to Dion) · 357
- Letter V (to Perdiccas III of Macedon)
- Letter VI (to Hermias, Erastus and Coriscus)
- Letter VII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter VIII (to the relatives and friends of Dion) · 353
- Letter IX (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter X (to Aristodorus)
- Letter XI (to Laodamas)
- Letter XII (to Archytas of Tarentum)
- Letter XIII (to Dionysius II)
- Definitions
- On Justice
- On Virtue
- Demodocus
- Sisyphus
- Halcyon
- Eryxias
- Axiochus
- Epigrams
Sources
- Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).
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