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- **Event Name**: Book at Lunchtime: How To Talk About Love
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 12:30 pm – Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 01:45 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: TORCH Book at Lunchtime presents How To Talk About Love by Professor Armand D'Angour (Classics).About this EventWhat 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? Plato’s Symposium is one of the oldest, most influential, and most profound explorations of such questions—it is even the source of the idea of “Platonic love.” How to Talk about Love introduces and presents the key passages and central ideas of Plato’s philosophical dialogue in a lively and highly readable new translation, which also features the original Greek on facing pages.The Symposium is set at a fictional drinking party during which prominent Athenians engage in a friendly competition by delivering improvised speeches in praise of Eros, the Greek god of love and sex. The aristocrat Phaedrus, the legal expert Pausanias, the physician Eryximachus, the comic playwright Aristophanes, and the tragic poet Agathon—each by turn celebrates different aspects of love before Socrates proposes not to praise love but to tell the truth about it. In the final speech, the politician and libertine Alcibiades argues that Socrates himself is the epitome of love.Deftly capturing the essence and spirit of Plato’s masterpiece, How to Talk about Love makes the Symposium more accessible and enjoyable than ever before.Lunch is served at 12.30pm, with the discussion beginning at 12.45pm.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Oxford
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
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- **full address**: Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Walton Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 29 Apr, 2026 at 12:30 pm (+01:00)
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  - **A:** Seminar Room 63, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Walton Street, Oxford, United Kingdom
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