Review
An all-male dinner party in Athens in 416 BC, with plentiful wine and attentive serving-girls, seems an unlikely setting for one of the world's greatest treatises on the nature of love. Yet in the Symposium Plato presents a series of witty, erudite and immensely readable speeches on love, in a setting which would be very familiar to the Athenians of the day. Students of classical Greek will delight in Robin Waterfield's fluent yet comfortable translation. His emphasis on accessibility rather than over-literalism has produced a translation sparkling with wit and ideas, which classicists and non-classicists alike will enjoy reading. Waterfield's fascinating introduction to the text provides valuable background to the sexual mores of the time and the social culture of classical Greece. He also examines each speech in detail, elucidating some of the more oblique points of the text to enable the reader to tackle it with confidence. The Greek playwright Agathon has walked off with the laurels at a recent competition, and is celebrating his victory with a select dinner party, or symposium. As he and his guests take their places, they decide to hold back on the amount of wine they consume and talk about love. The guests at the symposium are a mixed bunch of characters, who deliver their speeches in various styles and with different reactions from their appreciative listeners. Agathon's fellow playwright, the comic master Aristophanes, is there, as is Erxymachus, a doctor, and of course Socrates himself, brilliant philosopher and Plato's mentor. The conversation ranges from a declaration of the importance of homoerotic love to Socrates's account of his discussions with the prophetess Diotima, who claimed that we can only achieve true goodness through love. Into this scene of convivial discussion bursts Alcibiades, ex-lover of Socrates, military genius and famous bon viveur with a scandalous reputation. Thrusting himself between Socrates and his latest lover, Agathon, Alcibiades insists on joining in with the discussion but soon digresses and talks about his own love for Socrates. Although some critics have found the gate-crashing Alcibiades's speech sits awkwardly on such profound metaphysical discussion, it reminds the reader of the physical reality of love, while making several pointed references back to earlier speeches. As Waterfield says at the beginning of his introduction, the Symposium should be read at a sitting and re-visited for further enjoyment and insight. Layer after layer of meaning becomes revealed, and this slender dialogue proves to be a box of ever-increasing delights. (Kirkus UK)
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评分这是一篇《哲学与人生》课程期末论文。谈论爱欲的哲学家少之又少。其中,柏拉图的态度比较温和,更容易被我们从直觉上接受。 我想说一句很无知的话:如果我们把爱搞明白了,大概就能搞明白世界上的一切。 【摘要】《会饮篇》(或《论爱情》,伦理的)是柏拉图以对话体完成的关...
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评分爱欲起源于有我之心 有我才有缺憾 有缺憾才有欲望 苏格拉底没有我 希腊的神非常八卦 看到受爱情激励的人就开始变兴奋。。。。 每个神话体系都是心灵的创造 给人不同的想象和心理空间 佛教的轮回也是别有妙趣的视角 从轮回的观点看 这一世没法达到无我之境也该随缘 随着有我...
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beauty as a "form"
评分god is btw mortal and immortal. he converts prays n gifts n wishes to both the sides.
评分Well-written. Alcibiades控诉苏格拉底的部分太精彩了。一面说真正的爱应当give birth to immortality ,另一面身后不留著述。谦虚之人往往最是傲慢,A讽刺得恰到好处。老苏真有意思。
评分翻译质朴,比较准确,注释恰到好处。
评分翻译质朴,比较准确,注释恰到好处。
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