With an Introduction by Jane O'Grady. Translated by Tom Griffith. In Symposium, a group of
Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in
and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the
sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The setting of the other
dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death.
Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates' speech in his own defence …

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