The wealthy Athenian Callias gives a dinner for the young athlete Autolycus, and Socrates and his friends spend the evening drinking, watching a dancing girl and a tumbler, and each boasting of what he is proudest of. Talk turns at last to love. Translated by H. G. Dakyns, who thought Plato knew the work.
A relaxed, often comic portrait of Socrates off duty, best read alongside Plato’s own Symposium. Download the free EPUB.