What is the nature of love? Plato’s Symposium offers a series of speeches praising and defining the nature of love. Socrates usually represents Plato’s views to the greatest extent, but usually something is to be learned by comparing and contrasting various speakers. What does this dialogue teach us about the nature of love? What does it tell us about the way in which Greeks understood love? Why does Plato choose to set this work as a ‘symposium’? How does it embody and illustrate the Greek practices of symposium?
