With an Introduction by Jane O' Grady Translated by Tom Griffith In Symposium a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party & talk about love until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in & decides to discuss Socrates instead Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre Socrates is put on trial for impiety & sentenced to death Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety Apology is Socrates' speech in his own defence Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment & Phaedo gives an account of Socrates' last day These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before Tom Griffith's Symposium has been described as 'possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue' All the other translations are new