use in him (218e–219a). Alcibiades spent the night sleeping beside Socrates yet, in his deep humiliation, Alcibiades made no sexual attempt (219b-d). In his speech, Alcibiades goes on to describe Socrates' virtues, his incomparable valor in battle, his immunity to cold or fear. On one occasion he even saved Alcibiades' life and then refused to accept honors for it (219e–221c). Socrates, he concludes, is unique in his ideas and accomplishments, unrivaled by any man from the past or present (221c). Authors and works cited in the Symposium Acusilaus Aeschylus Aristophanes, The Clouds Euripides, Melanippe Heraclitus Hesiod, Theogony Homer, Cypria, Iliad Parmenides Prodicus of Ceos, Praise of Heracles unspecified (likely lost) philosophical discourse on the utility of Salt See also Platonic love Xenophon's Symposium Diotima of Mantinea Erik Satie's Socrate "The Origin of Love", a song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch Symposium Greek love Bernstein's Serenade after "Symposium" Stages on Life's Way, a book which includes In Vino Veritas, Søren Kierkegaard's dialogue on love based on Symposium References Sources Arieti, James A. Interpreting Plato: The Dialogues As Drama. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (1991). Cobb, William S., "The Symposium" in The Symposium and the Phaedrus: Plato's Erotic Dialogues, State Univ of New York Pr (1993). . Leitao, David D., The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature, Cambridge Univ Pr (2012). Nussbaum, Martha C. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge University Press (2001). Current texts, translations, commentaries Plato, The Symposium, trans. by W. Hamilton. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1951. Plato, The Symposium, Greek text with commentary by Kenneth Dover. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. . Plato, The Symposium, Greek text with trans. by Tom Griffith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. . Plato, The Symposium, trans. with commentary by R. E. Allen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. . Plato, The Symposium, trans. by Christopher Gill. London: Penguin, 2003. . Plato, The Symposium, trans. by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff (from Plato: Complete Works, ed. by John M. Cooper, pp. 457–506. ); available separately: . Plato, The Symposium, trans. by Robin Waterfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. . Plato, The Symposium, trans. by Avi Sharon. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 1998. . Plato, The Symposium, trans. by Seth Benardete with essays by Seth Benardete and Allan Bloom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. . Plato, The Symposium, trans. by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Provincetown, Pagan