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Greek Mythology and Religion

Symposium

by Plato

Plato's dialogue set at a drinking party where the guests deliver speeches in praise of Eros. Phaedrus' speech includes an early and unflattering version of Orpheus' descent, in which the gods show him only a phantom of his wife.

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