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 1 [Title]|                                  The Symposium~
 2 Intro  |           all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form,
 3 Intro  |              other Platonic work the Symposium is Greek both in style and
 4 Intro  |         there are more things in the Symposium of Plato than any commentator
 5 Intro  |           strain which he hears. The Symposium of Plato is a work of this
 6 Intro  |         especially applicable to the Symposium.~The power of love is represented
 7 Intro  |           love is represented in the Symposium as running through all nature
 8 Intro  |          nature. In the Phaedrus and Symposium love is not merely the feeling
 9 Intro  |          reason’ is the theme of the Symposium of Plato. And as there is
10 Intro  |              which is reached in the Symposium is seen also to be the highest
11 Intro  |          refers to this (e.g. in the Symposium) half in jest, yet ‘with
12 Intro  |       character of Alcibiades in the Symposium is hardly less remarkable
13 Intro  |         criterion of the date of the Symposium, except that which is furnished
14 Intro  |            year of Plato’s life. The Symposium cannot therefore be regarded
15 Intro  | consideration not worth raising.~The Symposium is connected with the Phaedrus
16 Intro  |        points of comparison with the Symposium. For there, too, philosophy
17 Intro  |               which remind us of the Symposium. But while the Phaedo and
18 Intro  |          states of existence, in the Symposium there is no break between
19 Intro  |          strength to go further.~The Symposium of Xenophon, in which Socrates
20 Intro  |       references to the Phaedrus and Symposium, as well as to some of the
21 Intro  |         genuineness of the work. The Symposium of Xenophon, if written
22 Intro  |              writer. The (so-called) Symposium of Xenophon may therefore
23 Intro  |             in time of the Phaedrus, Symposium, Phaedo. The order which
24 Text   |                                      SYMPOSIUM~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: