Aristophanes
Symposium
Peloponnesia
Allegory of the cave Agora
Socrates
Athens
Alcibiades
Hemlock encomium
,Introduction to Plato,
Socrates and the
Symposium
,Context
431 – 405 BC Peloponnesian W
ending in Sparta conquering Ath
416 BC Symposium dialogue set
415 BC Sicilian expedition, Athe
suffers devastating defeat
405 BC Aristophanes’ Frogs
performance
399BC Socrates’ death
Around 385 BC, Plato writes the
Symposium
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