Plato’s masterpiece is in a concise, understandable and modernized form. A praise and hymn to God Eros (Cupid) and more than this a penetration into the core of the real nature of Love. Is Eros the father of elegance, luxury, pleasure, fondness, softness and grace? Is he, who empties men of disaffection and fills them with affection; concord importing, discord exporting, regardful of kindness, regardless of unkindness, favor producing, disfavor reducing, gracefulness infusing, ungracefulness refusing, harmony injecting, disharmony rejecting, satisfaction including, dissatisfaction excluding, providing courtesy and driving away discourtesy as Agathon states? For Socrates, things are quite different. The most prominent personalities of philosophy and thought in general of Athens of 5th century B.C. (Socrates, Aristophanes, Alcibiades, and others) are the partakers of this Symposium, which takes place in Agathon’s house, and they all speak in turn, in order to glorify and praise the God Eros. A valuable, timeless and comprehensible erotic handbook, a wonderful matching of philosophy and literature.