This new edition of Plato's Symposium provides beginning readers and scholars alike with a solid, reliable translation that is both faithful to the original text and accessible to contemporary readers. In addition, the volume offers a number of aids to help the reader make his or her way through this remarkable work:

• A concise introduction sets the scene, conveys the tenor of the dialogue, and introduces the reader to the main characters with a gloss on their backgrounds and a comment on their roles in the dialogue. It also provides a list of basic points for readers to keep in mind as they read the work.

• A thought-provoking interpretive essay offers reflections on the themes of the dialogue, focusing especially on the dialogue as drama.

• A select bibliography points to works, both classic and contemporary, that are especially relevant to readers of the Symposium.

• Two appendices consist of a line drawing that depicts the spacial layout and positioning of characters in the Symposium, and a chart that shows the relation of the first six speeches to number, age, parentage and the function of Eros.

• We started tracking this book on August 10, 2017.
• This book was $10.95 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 27 times in the past 2,444 days.
• The current price of this book is $8.76 last checked 3 hours ago.
• The lowest price to date was $8.76 last reached on April 21, 2023.
• This book has been $8.76 7 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $10.95 last reached on April 10, 2023.
• This book has been $10.95 12 times since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophyGreek & Roman
• Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophyPhilosophy
• Politics & Social Sciences

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled