Symposium

General Information
·<Tab/>Written by Plato and based on a dinner party attended by seven men to discuss the topic of love. Usually they would have drunk plenty of wine but they had just attended one of the men's daughter's wedding so they decide to have a dialogue on love.
·<Tab/>Socrates is one of the men, but his part was written by Plato and is widely regarded as Plato's views.
·<Tab/>It's important when reading the dialogue that they are not just talking about the thing we think as love but also th…