Photograph by AKG/Album One of Plato’s great works, also called the Symposium, examines the nature of love. Written around 375 B.C., it reveals the central importance of the feast to classical ...

Plato's Symposium is perhaps the most famous text on this subject. In it the playwright Aristophanes speculates that there were once three sexes - male, female and hermaphrodite, each of which had ...

Kennedy’s new book, The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues, reports on the hidden doctrines revealed so far, including those in The Symposium, a philosophical text concerned with love. “Plato’s ...

Ageless Arete: Selected Essays from the 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy OPEN ACCESS 2022 Arete in Plato and Aristotle: Selected Essays from the ...