Philosophical dialogue · 1925

Symposium

The banquet at Agathon's house and the speeches in praise of Love

by Plato

Translated by W. R. M. Lamb (1925)

At a supper in the house of the tragic poet Agathon, the guests, Socrates among them, each deliver a speech in praise of Love; the drunken Alcibiades breaks in at the end. Translated by W. R. M. Lamb for the Loeb Classical Library (Plato, vol. III, 1925).


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