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 ...

According to Plato, love’s aim is not to complete us, but to inspire us to grow and become the best human being we can be.

Plato's Symposium is perhaps the most famous text on this subject. In it the playwright Aristophanes speculates that there were once three sexes - male, female and hermaphrodite, each of which had ...

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