| Symposium Contributor(s): Plato (Author) |
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ISBN: 151210082X ISBN-13: 9781512100822 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Lexile Measure: 1250 |
| Physical Information: 0.12" H x 6" W x 9" (0.20 lbs) 58 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew. For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the future may often be conveyed in words which could hardly have been understood or interpreted at the time when they were uttered (compare Symp.)-which were wiser than the writer of them meant, and could not have been expressed by him if he had been interrogated about them. Yet Plato was not a mystic, nor in any degree affected by the Eastern influences which afterwards overspread the Alexandrian world. |