How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern Lovers

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How to Talk about Love: An Ancient Guide for Modern LoversAncient Wisdom for Modern Readers Explore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Platos great dramatic work, the Symposium. What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physical attraction? Does it bring out our better selves? How does it relate to sex? Is love divine? Platos Symposium is one of

in this modern

In Books VII–IX

word manipulation and source analysis to encourage wider discussion

a persuasive oratorical tour de force

The Roman statesman Lucius Licinius Murena led legions in the Mithridatic Wars and subsequently became administrator of Transalpine Gaul

the edition has been a continued success

For Seneca

with the Metamorphoses and Ovid's other works

Subsequently he spent three years in Asia Minor at the court of his former pupil Hermeias

who lived from about 84 to 54 BC

where he falls tragically in love with Queen Dido

and when to eat