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The power of Love and the Love of Power in Plato’s Symposium

Plato’s Symposium is one of the most influential texts to have survived from classical antiquity. It continues to shape modern ideas about Socrates and the culture of Athens in the late fifth-century BC, about Greek sexuality and, above all of course, about erōs, love and desire. It is hard to think of any theorist of love, whether divine or secular, from the Renaissance on who has not been forced to frame his or her ideas as a response to the Symposium, and in particular to the speech which the Platonic Socrates reports from the Mantinean priestess Diotima, a speech which takes erōs quite literally to a higher plane.