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Written by Plato - Audio book narrated by David Shaw-Parker with a full cast - a new translation by Tom Griffith - Unabridged Nonfiction - 2 COMPACT DISCS - 2 hours, 31 minutes

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (February 2006)

In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party held by Agathon to celebrate his victory in the drama festival of the Dionysia. They talk about love until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in, and decides to talk about Socrates instead. Symposium gives a picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire.

This classic discussion on love is presented in its ideal medium: a multi-voice recording.

The Cast

Socrates - David Shaw-Parker
Apollodorus /Alcibiades - Tim Bentinck
Aristodemus - Andrew Branch
Agathon - Daniel Flynn
Pausanias /Friend - Gordon Griffin
Phaedrus Hayward Morse Eryximachus /Servant - Christopher Scott
Diotima - Susan Sheridan
Aristophanes - David Timson
Presenter - Daniel Flynn