Literary Form
The Symposium is written as a dramatic dialog, a form used by Plato in more than thirty works, and according to Walter Hamilton it is his most perfect one. It is set in the Athenian social life, in which develops its content about the subject of love and Socrates character. There is little doubt that the content of the dialogue is fictitious, although Plato has built a very realistic atmosphere.
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