Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    Classical · Greek

    Symposium

    Xenophon

    Symposium, in English translation from the Perseus Digital Library (tr. Perseus Digital Library), with the Greek original.

    Chapters
    9
    Variants
    18
    Genre
    Classics
    Difficulty
    Intermediate

    Chapters

    1. 01Chapter 1prose
    2. 02Chapter 2prose
    3. 03Chapter 3prose
    4. 04Chapter 4prose
    5. 05Chapter 5prose
    6. 06Chapter 6prose
    7. 07Chapter 7prose
    8. 08Chapter 8prose
    9. 09Chapter 9prose

    In the atlas

    fully mapped

    Ideas38

    Friendship · Beauty · Virtue · Convivial unpleasantness · Courage and wisdom · Courage as teachable · Crime · Daimonion · Dance as exercise · Education through association

    Places

    Athens · Attica · Callias' house in the Peiraeus · Heraclea · Olympus · Peiraeus · Persia · The Gymnasium

    Groups21

    Banqueters · Banquet guests · Barbarians · Blessed gods · Commonwealth · Companions of Socrates · Eleans · Freemen and slaves · Generals, cavalry commanders, and office-seekers · Graces

    Events12

    Ariadne and Dionysus performance · Bacchic music · Banquet entertainment · Beauty contest · Callias' priestly office · Greater Panathenaic games · Horse-races · Libation and hymn · Pancratium victory · avenging Patroclus' death

    Objects15

    Hoops and sword-hoop · Iliad · Lamp and mirror marvels · Mandragora · Marionettes · Money · Odyssey · Perfume and olive oil · Potter's wheel · Wine

    19 citations · 30 themes · 204 entity mentions — every one anchored to a verbatim passage. The atlas.