Symposium

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'We who are here assembled cannot do better than honour the god Love'At an elite Athenian drinking party in 416 BCE, a group of friends take their turn to speak in praise of Eros, god of love. At this symposium the guests, including statesmen, playwrights, poets and Plato's teacher, the famed philosopher Socrates, discuss ...