TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plato
AU  - Jowett,Benjamin
TI  - Lysis
AV  - BPA 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Classical literature
KW  - Socrates, 470 BC-399 BC
KW  - Friendship -- Early works to 1800
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysis_(dialogue); Release date is 1998-12-01; Produced by Sue Asscher, and David Widger; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Lysis" by Plato is a dialogue written in the early period of Plato's work. In this philosophical conversation, Socrates encounters young men at a wrestling school and engages them in examining the nature of philia—an intimate bond deeper than modern friendship. Through questioning two boys, Lysis and Menexenus, Socrates explores whether true friendship exists between similar people, opposites, or something else entirely. Each promising definition is systematically challenged, leaving the nature of loving friendship mysteriously unresolved. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1579
ER  -