edgepedia

Lysis

Plato · 390 BC

Plato's Lysis, translated by Benjamin Jowett, is a Socratic dialogue in which Socrates discusses the nature of friendship with two Athenian youths, Lysis and Menexenus, examining whether friends are like or unlike and what love truly seeks.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Loading the text…