The Symposium by Plato | Full Audiobook (Calm Narration)

At a banquet in ancient Athens, Socrates and his friends agree to set aside the wine and pass the evening another way: each man in turn will rise and deliver a speech in praise of Love. One by one they speak, the poet, the lawyer, the physician, the comedian Aristophanes with his strange tale of the divided halves of mankind forever seeking their other half, until the conversation builds toward Socrates, who recounts what the priestess Diotima once taught him about the ascent from the love of a single beautiful body to the love of Beauty itself. Then the doors burst open and the drunken Alcibiades staggers in, and turns the praise of Love into a confession about Socrates himself. Plato's Symposium, in the public-domain English translation by Benjamin Jowett. Complete unabridged audiobook, read aloud with calm narration for deep listening, study, reflection, or sleep. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction & Prologue 21:17 Phaedrus 28:58 Pausanias 49:14 Eryximachus 1:01:04 Aristophanes 1:22:23 Agathon 1:32:43 Socrates & Diotima 2:24:21 Alcibiades If this brought you a moment of stillness, subscribe to Ancient Lantern for more timeless wisdom, read aloud. New readings often. --- Ancient Lantern @ancientlanternwisdom Timeless wisdom, read aloud.