"Marvel not then at the love which all men have of their offspring; for that universal love and interest is for the sake of immortality." The quintessential classic Greek philosophical treatise on Love and its many forms, this newly restored edition of what many scholars consider to be Plato"s masterwork is presented in Benjamin Jowett"s famous scholarly translation, complete with an analytic essay essential for the understanding of this powerful, complex, and rich philosophical work from the height of Athenian culture.