Benardete, Seth, "On Plato's Symposium," Plato's Symposium, trans. Seth Benardete, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Excerpt:

Some Platonic dialogues are bound closely to the life and times of Socrates, and some are set at a particular time of day. The Phaedo and Symposium satisfy both criteria; they are also non-Socratically reported dialogues, and both contain Socrates’ own account of his early thought. The Phaedo tells of the last hours of Socrates, from the early morning to the setting of the sun, when Socrates remembers at the last moment that he owes a clock to Asclepius; the Symposium tells of an evening party that ended when the cock began to crow, and Socrates left the poets Agathon and Aristophanes asleep and went about his usual business.

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