Set in the year 416 BCE, The Symposium is a Socratic Dialogue exploring a series of impromptu speeches given by a group of Athenian men at a banquet. During this banquet, praises are given to Eros, Greek God of love.
The men at the banquet include:
Phaedrus: an ancient Athenian aristocrat associated with the inner-circle of Socrates,
Pausanias: an ancient Athenian from the city-state Kerameis, and lover of Agathon,
Eryximachus: an ancient Athenian physician who was indicted during a conflict of the Peloponnesian War,
Aristophanes: an ancient Athenian comic playwright often referred to as “The Father of Comedy”,
Agathon: an Athenian tragic poet who is portrayed by Plato as a ‘handsome man with polished manners’,
Socrates: an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, known only through the posthumous accounts of other writers,
Alcibiades: an Athenian statesman and general who played a major role in the Peloponnesian War.
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