— A Classic — Includes Active Table of Contents
— Includes Religious Illustrations
OF all the works of
Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly
thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as
Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself
knew. For in philosophy as in prophecy glimpses of the future may often
be conveyed in words which could hardly have been understood or
interpreted at the time when they were uttered (cp. Symp. 210 foll., 223
D)—which were wiser than the writer of them meant, and could not
have been explained by him if he had been interrogated about them.
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