1) Ancient Greek society 2) Conference 3) Dialogue of Plato 4) High-level gabfest 5) Socratic dialogue
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1) Discussion 2) Seminar
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[Plato] The Symposium (Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385–380 BC. It concerns itself at one level with the genesis, purpose and nature of love, and (in latter-day interpretations) is the origin of the concept of Platonic love. Love is examined in a sequence of speeches by men attending a symposium, or drinki...
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• (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks. • (n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
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(from the article `Plato`) ...to have ended with the Theaetetus and the closely related Parmenides. Apart from this, perhaps all that can be said with certainty is that the ... ...hints in the Republic, as well as in Plato`s lecture `On the Good` and in several of the later dialogues, that this first principle is identical ......
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(from the article `Socrates`) ...seems, in certain passages, to be heavily influenced by his reading of some of Plato`s dialogues, and so the evidentiary value of at least this ... Symposium narrates a party where conversation, interspersed with cabaret, shifts continually between frivolity and seriousness. Personal ... ...members of...
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(from the article `ancient Greek civilization`) ...antiquity, is essentially elitist in its bias. Aristocratic values were transmitted both vertically, by family oral traditions, and horizontally, ...
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Conference or general discussion, or a published collection of opinions on a given subject by various contributors. The title was used in ancient Greece by both Plato and Xenophon for books...
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An after-dinner speech contest or informal debate. Such spontaneous talks were popular in classical
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Sym·po'si·um noun ;
plural Symposia . [ Latin , from Greek
sympo`sion a drinking party, feast;
sy`n with +
po`sis a drinking. See
Syn- , and confer
Potable .]
1. A drinking together; a merry feast.
T. Warton. 2. ...
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n] - a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations
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symposium (singular)
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a drinking party that usually included entertainment and conversation.
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noun a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations
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a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, esp. a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience. · a collection of opinions expressed or articles contributed by several persons on a given subject or topic. · an account of a discussion meeting or of the conversation at it. · (in an...
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