"I went to Ginger's. There were a bunch of people there, and I bought everybody drinks, and I said to them, 'If I buy you a drink, will you tell me what you think about love?'"
Although Plato’s Symposium is best remembered as a Socratic dialogue, it was also, at its core, a story about a dinner party. In Athens, symposia consisted of a lavish banquet followed by a lot of…