Plato's Lysis (a dialogue on friendship)

Lysis (Friendship) By Plato Dramatized Audiobook - Audiobooks Dimension

The Text - Translation by Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893)

The following is a link to a pdf file of the dialogue. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OA8uC-hIAl6Dl2qmNZFXAHKtk8bysdVq/view?usp=drive_link

The following is a link to the The Project Gutenberg EBook of Lysis, by Plato on the internet.

Perseus Digital Library text on Lysis: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0176%3Atext%3DLysis

Some resources

Wikipedia: Lysis (dialogue)

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship

Some questions relating to friendship

(Extract from the Introduction section of the Benjamin Jowett translation of Lysis)

The subject of friendship has a lower place in the modern than in the ancient world, partly because a higher place is assigned by us to love and marriage. The very meaning of the word has become slighter and more superficial; it seems almost to be borrowed from the ancients, and has nearly disappeared in modern treatises on Moral Philosophy. 

We may ask the following:

1. What are the different type of friendships?
2. Why do people want to have friends?
3. What are the characteristics or personalities that enable one to have more friends?
4. Why do some people have a few good and close friends, some have many acquaintances, and some people are lonely?
5. Is friendship between humans only? Could there be friendship between: a) human and pet/animal, b) animal and animal,  c) human and subject (e.g. philosophy, mathematics, science), d) human and activities (e.g. work, sports, art)?
6. Philosophy means "love of wisdom".  Is that one of the most important type of friendship?
7. What is friendship? (Please see for information the Wikipedia page on friendship.)
8. What are the main themes explored in Lysis and what are some questions related to those themes? (See Wikipedia page on Lysis.)