At a drinking party, guests take turns praising love until Socrates reframes it as the soul's ascent toward beauty itself.
Books that mention Symposium (9)
The Just City by Jo Walton: “I had read all the Plato I had been allowed, which was only the Apology and the Symposium and the Lysis.”
The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton: “unless you count the re-enactments of the Symposium on Plato’s birthday, but I still felt all those things.”
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: “"According to Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, in the ancient world of myth there were three types of people," Oshima says.”
The Well of Saint Clare by Anatole France: “It was a Treatise on Love, writ in Greek by the divine Plato.”
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell: “The Greek legend that Aristophanes tells in Plato's Symposium is another of this kind.”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “But I can order the ones listed in The Symposium of course, so I’ll do that.”
The Mask of Apollo by Mary Renault: “Yes, I have read The Symposion once or twice.”
An Inquiry into the Good by Nishida Kitarō: “In his famous Symposium, Plato says that 'love is the longing of that which is lacking to return to its original wholeness.' [auto-translated]”