Plato’s Symposium offers one of the earliest discussions of love in the Western philosophical tradition. In this short dialogue, a group of friends in ancient Athens have a party where they compete to see who can give the best speech in praise of Eros, the god of Love. What is love, anyway? What are the myths and stories we tell ourselves about love? And how might the love of learning turn out to be similar to romantic love? Ideally students would buy the cheap paperback Hackett edition, translated by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff.