This Symposium has lived so much in the shadow of the famous one by Plato, that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it gives the only alternative view of Socrates and has a wit and vigour of its own which paints a picture of a Greek society that makes it a document of prime historical importance.

Xenophon: Symposium (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Literature & Fiction

Bowen, A. J.

History & Criticism

Liverpool University Press

This Symposium has lived so much in the shadow of the famous one by Plato, that it has not received a full commentary in English for well over a hundred years. Yet it gives the only alternative view of Socrates and has a wit and vigour of its own which paints a picture of a Greek society that makes it a document of prime historical importance.

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Xenophon: Symposium (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)

Xenophon: Symposium (Aris & Phillips Classical Texts)