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Symposium

Plato

Symposium

Original publication
385 BC
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
128
Difficulty
★★★
Genres
Philosophy
Translated from
English

Book summary

At a banquet in Athens, the physician Eryximachus invites each guest, including the philosopher Socrates, to speak in turn about the nature of love and desire. Each one offers his own view, revealing different facets of this complex feeling. Through these exchanges, a deep reflection takes shape on beauty, the soul and the search for truth. The dialogue combines philosophical thought with a poetic dimension. The author offers a founding work that questions the meaning of human relationships and of knowledge.

The plot

A dinner with friends in Athens. Tonight, the talk is of love. At the poet Agathon’s house, the guests drank too much the night before. Tonight they would rather talk: each in turn says what love is. The philosopher…

The world of the book

The symposium, an evening among friends. In ancient Greece, after dinner, the guests stayed reclining on couches. They drank wine mixed with water, listened to music and talked.

The author

Plato, philosopher of Athens. “Plato” is a nickname meaning “the broad one” in Greek. It is said that his wrestling teacher called him that because he was sturdy.

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.

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