Συμπόσιον
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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.
Aliases (1)
- Symposium ×8
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ancient Greek literary work
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Platonic dialogue → philosophical dialogue → |
| approximateDateOfComposition |
4th century BCE
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| author |
Plato
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| centralConcept |
Eros as a daimon
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philosophical love of wisdom → |
| containsDoctrine |
ascent to the Form of Beauty
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ladder of love → |
| dialogueForm |
dramatic dialogue
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| featuresCharacter |
Agathon
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Alcibiades → Aristophanes → Diotima → Eryximachus → Pausanias → Phaedrus → Socrates → |
| genre |
Socratic dialogue
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philosophical dialogue → |
| hasForm |
framed narrative
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| hasReception |
commentaries in late antiquity
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extensive modern scholarship → |
| influenced |
Christian philosophical conceptions of love
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Renaissance philosophy → later theories of love in Western philosophy → modern aesthetics → |
| language |
Ancient Greek
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| literaryForm |
symposium literature
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| locationInPlot |
house of Agathon in Athens
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| mainTheme |
love
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ἔρως (eros) → |
| narrator |
Apollodorus
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| occasionInPlot |
celebration of Agathon’s victory in a tragedy competition
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| philosophicalSchool |
Platonism
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| philosophicalTopic |
beauty
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immortality → nature of love → virtue → |
| placeOfComposition |
Athens
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| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Πολιτεία (Republic)
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Φαίδων (Phaedo) → Φαῖδρος (Phaedrus) → |
| setting |
banquet in Athens
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| settingPeriod |
Classical Athens
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| structure |
series of speeches in praise of Eros
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| titleInAncientGreek |
Συμπόσιον
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| titleInEnglish |
Symposium
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| workInPlatoCorpus |
middle dialogues
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Referenced by (10)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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Agathon
("Symposium")
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Pausanias ("Symposium") → |
appearsIn |
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Form of Beauty
("Symposium")
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discussedIn |
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Middle dialogues of Plato
("Symposium")
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hasPart |
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Socratic dialogues of Plato
("Symposium")
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includesWork |
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Hippias Major
("Symposium")
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relatedWork |
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Phaedrus
("Symposium")
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relatedWorkByAuthor |
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Συμπόσιον
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titleInAncientGreek |
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Συμπόσιον
("Symposium")
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titleInEnglish |
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Plato's Symposium
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titleInGreek |