The Symposium, or Banquet, is a dialogue in imitation of Plato, written by Methodius, a teacher and probably a bishop, who flourished in Lycia during the period known as the Little Peace of the Church.
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The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385-370 BC. The event depicted in the Symposium is a banquet attended by a group of men, who have come to the symposium, which was, in ancient Greece, a traditional part of the same ...
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... Symposium may be questioned , in which case it would appear to be the work of an imitator written à propos of Plato's Symposium . This is a suggestion thrown out by C. O. Müller ( in reference to Symp . viii . 40 , in his Commentatio ...
Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 3–6 June 2001 Andrew Pollard, Sebastien Candel. Preface The goals of the Symposium were to draw together researchers in turbulence and combustion so as to highlight ...