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The MouseionPlatoSymposium

SymposiumΣυμπόσιον

Read it with the English beside the Greek More by Plato

Kind of writing: Philosophic Dialogue
Dialect: Attic
Written: 5th–4th c. BC
Length: 20,519 words analysed
Vocabulary: 79% common words
In the library: 1 Greek text, 1 English translation

The texts

Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

Greek textPlatonis Opera, Tomus II: Tetralogia III-IV. Burnet, John, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
English translationPlato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3, Lamb, W.R.M., translator. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925 (printing).

In The Painted Stoa

Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.

Wine, water, song and argument: the Greek drinking partyThe symposiumA symposion means "drinking together".Wedding torches, a poet's fever, lovers' customs and the law on adulteryLove, sex and marriageA Greek marriage was a deal between two households, made so that a man would have legitimate children to inherit his house.