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Symposium by Plato

The Symposium, Plato’s meditation on passionate love, or the Greek erōs, is both pivotal to our understanding of his wider philosophy and one of Ancient Greece’s greatest and most beautiful literary triumphs. In a lively dialectic, Plato considers love’s complex nature, distill- ing the desire for physical love from the love of virtue and goodness, and guiding us to a recognition and appreciation of true Beauty, in its essential and unchanging Platonic Form. As A. C. Grayling explains in his new foreword, we discover that ‘love is in essence the desire for all kinds of good there can be – happiness, nobility, moral goodness, beauty itself ’. Translated by Robin Waterfield

Included in this edition are an introduction and notes by the translator Robin Waterfield. Linda Baker-Smith’s fresco-like illustrations show us love in its many guises, while her vibrant binding design depicts a winged Erōs.

Features;

• Folio Society First Edition No. 708
• Publisher Folio Society, London; 1991
• Quarter Purple Cloth Hardback with Paper sides with a design by Baker-Smith, 168 pp
• Illustrations by Linda Baker-Smith.
• Size 280 x 170mm, 1kg

Condition: Brand New – Still In Original Unopened Cellophane Wrap

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