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'''Xenophon''''s Symposium records the discussion of [[Socrates]] and company at a dinner given by [[Callias]] for his [[eromenos]] [[Autolycus]], son of [[Lycon]] (not to be confused with the Lycon who was one of Socrates' prosecutors). 421 BC is the dramatic date of the work.

'''Xenophon''''s Symposium records the discussion of [[Socrates]] and company at a dinner given by [[Callias]] for his [[eromenos]] [[Autolycus]], son of [[Lycon]] (not to be confused with the Lycon who was one of Socrates' prosecutors). 421 BC is the dramatic date of the work.

Henry Graham Dakyns, a Victorian-era scholar who translated many works by Plato and Xenophon, believed that Plato knew of this work, and that it influenced him to some degree when he wrote his own Symposium.

Henry Graham Dakyns, a Victorian-era scholar who translated many works by Plato and Xenophon, believed that Plato knew of this work, and that it influenced him to some degree when he wrote his own Symposium.

Yet, throughout most of the twentieth century, scholarly opinion took the references to the army of lovers as proof that Xenophon had based his work on Plato's. Though some scholars have argued that the long speech of [[Socrates]] contains later additions, and opinion is divided as to which author was first to write a Socratic symposium, a work considered the standard study of this piece as of early 2000 holds that Xenophon wrote the Symposium in the second half of the 360s, benefiting from Plato's former Socratic literature.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_%28Xenophon%29]

Yet, throughout most of the twentieth century, scholarly opinion took the references to the army of lovers as proof that Xenophon had based his work on Plato's. Though some scholars have argued that the long speech of [[Socrates]] contains later additions, and opinion is divided as to which author was first to write a Socratic symposium, a work considered the standard study of this piece as of early 2000 holds that Xenophon wrote the Symposium in the second half of the 360s, benefiting from Plato's former Socratic literature.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium_%28Xenophon%29]

 

* [[Project Gutenberg]] has the e-text of [https://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1181 Dakyns' translation of Xenophon's ''Symposium'']

* [[Project Gutenberg]] has the e-text of [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1181 Dakyns' translation of Xenophon's ''Symposium'']

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