Kennedy’s new book, The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues, reports on the hidden doctrines revealed so far, including those in The Symposium, a philosophical text concerned with love. “Plato’s ...

Photograph by AKG/Album One of Plato’s great works, also called the Symposium, examines the nature of love. Written around 375 B.C., it reveals the central importance of the feast to classical ...

Humor aside, the Symposium also contains a lengthy discussion of the nature of physical desire and spiritual love, which has become known as 'Platonic love'. Plato's suggestion is that this form ...