Also featuring speeches by Agathon and Aristophanes, FTP, identify this Platonic dialogue about love whose title refers to a drinking party.
It begins when a man from Phaleron asks for a better account of the titular event than the one he received from Philip's son Phoenix. He hears the account that Apollodorus heard from Aristodemus, who was brought along even though he wasn't invited. Eryximachus offers a medical point of view, while Pausanias draws a distinction between Urania and Pandemos. The last opinion expressed is that authors should be able to write both tragedy and comedy. Before that, the words of a woman from Mantinea named Diotima are reported by the main character. Also featuring speeches by Agathon and Aristophanes, FTP, identify this Platonic dialogue about love whose title refers to a drinking party.
It begins when a man from Phaleron asks for a better account of the titular event than the one he received from Philip's son Phoenix.
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