Symposium of Xenophon may therefore have no more title to be regarded as
genuine than the confessedly spurious Apology.

There are no means of determining the relative order in time of the
Phaedrus, Symposium, Phaedo. The order which has been adopted in this
translation rests on no other principle than the desire to bring together
in a series the memorials of the life of Socrates.


SYMPOSIUM

by

Plato

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 Glaucon.
Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates,
Alcibiades, A Troop of Revellers.

SCENE: The House of Agathon.


Concerning the things about which you ask to be informed I believe that I
am not ill-prepared with an answer. For the day before yesterday I was
coming from my own home at Phalerum to the city, and one of my