The Symposium (Penguin Classics)

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In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerge a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in society and the sublimation of basic human instincts.

Manufacturer : Penguin Classics
Release date : 27 February 2003
ISBN-10 : 0140449272 | ISBN-13: 9780140449273

1600s & Back (1), Non-fiction (1), Greece (1), Ancient Greek Lit (1), Fiction (1)

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"The lover is more divine; because he is inspired by God. Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is itself unstable The desire and pursuit of the whole is called love "

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