In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead.
Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates\' speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refus.
Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death.
The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre.
Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire.
In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead