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Symposium

by Plato (428–348 BCE)

2 chapters, about 31,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. INTRODUCTION. 10,000 words
2. SCENE: The House of Agathon. 20,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Aeschylus
• Alcibiades
• Aphrodite
• Apollo
• Harmony
• Orpheus
• Phaedrus (Athenian)

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