Συμπόσιον

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Ancient Greek literary work Platonic dialogue philosophical dialogue

Συμπόσιον is the original Ancient Greek title of Plato’s philosophical dialogue commonly known in English as the Symposium, which explores the nature of love through a series of speeches at a banquet.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Symposium	19
Συμπόσιον canonical	2

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ancient Greek literary work ⓘ Platonic dialogue ⓘ philosophical dialogue ⓘ
approximateDateOfComposition	4th century BCE ⓘ
author	Plato ⓘ
centralConcept	Eros as a daimon ⓘ philosophical love of wisdom ⓘ
containsDoctrine	ascent to the Form of Beauty ⓘ ladder of love ⓘ
dialogueForm	dramatic dialogue ⓘ
featuresCharacter	Agathon ⓘ Alcibiades ⓘ Aristophanes ⓘ Diotima of Mantinea ⓘ surface form: Diotima Eryximachus ⓘ Pausanias ⓘ Phaedrus ⓘ Socrates ⓘ
genre	Socratic dialogue ⓘ philosophical dialogue ⓘ
hasForm	framed narrative ⓘ
hasReception	commentaries in late antiquity ⓘ extensive modern scholarship ⓘ
influenced	Christian philosophical conceptions of love ⓘ Renaissance philosophy ⓘ later theories of love in Western philosophy ⓘ modern aesthetics ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryForm	symposium literature ⓘ
locationInPlot	house of Agathon in Athens ⓘ
mainTheme	love ⓘ Eros (primordial) ⓘ surface form: ἔρως (eros)
narrator	Apollodorus of Athens ⓘ surface form: Apollodorus
occasionInPlot	celebration of Agathon’s victory in a tragedy competition ⓘ
philosophicalSchool	Platonism ⓘ
philosophicalTopic	beauty ⓘ immortality ⓘ nature of love ⓘ virtue ⓘ
placeOfComposition	Athens ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor	Πολιτεία (Republic) ⓘ Phaedo ⓘ surface form: Φαίδων (Phaedo) Phaedrus ⓘ surface form: Φαῖδρος (Phaedrus)
setting	banquet in Athens ⓘ
settingPeriod	Classical Athens ⓘ
structure	series of speeches in praise of Eros ⓘ
titleInAncientGreek	Συμπόσιον self-link ⓘ
titleInEnglish	Συμπόσιον self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Symposium
workInPlatoCorpus	middle dialogues ⓘ