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Symposium
Συμπόσιον
At the house of the poet Agathon, who is celebrating his tragic victory of 416 BCE, the guests deliver speeches in praise of Eros. Socrates reports what Diotima of Mantinea taught him: love as the desire to beget in beauty and the ladder rising from beautiful bodies to Beauty itself. Alcibiades bursts in drunk and gives the most vivid portrait of Socrates that survives: the silenus hiding images of gods within, the soldier of Potidaea and Delium, the man no wine can make drunk.
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Authorship note
A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him. Alcibiades' eulogy is the source of almost everything known about Socrates' conduct on campaign.
Editions and translations
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English
The Symposium
Penguin Classics, 1999
Translation: Christopher Gill
ISBN 9780140446166
Socrates
Symposium
The Conscious LibrarySymposium
Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892
Translation: Benjamin Jowett
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
El banquete o del amor
The Conscious LibraryEl banquete o del amor
Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871
Translation: Patricio de Azcárate
Tomo 5 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.
Diálogos III: Fedón, Banquete, Fedro
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 93), 2020
Translation: C. García Gual, M. Martínez Hernández y E. Lledó Íñigo
ISBN 9788424939274
Reimpresión; primera edición en 1986.
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) · 371
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).
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