Written 360 B.C.E

Translated by Benjamin Jowett

Persons of the Dialogue
APOLLODORUS, who repeats to his companion the dialogue which he had heard from Aristodemus, and had already once narrated to Glauco
PHAEDRUS
PAUSANIAS
ERYXIMACHUS
ARISTOPHANES
AGATHON
SOCRATES
ALCIBIADES
A TROOP OF REVELLERS

Scene
The House of Agathon.

Citation and Use

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Plato, “Symposium,” in the internet Classics Archive, trans. Benjamin Jowett, (site by Daniel C. Stevenson, Web Atomics.), http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/symposium.html.

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