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Symposium (Full Text) This is one of Plato’s most known dialogues, dating back to around 380/385 BC. The text is concerned with the nature of love, as many intellectuals and artists in Athens….
The contrast between the content of Alcibiades’ speech and the character delivering it is a well-known interpretative difficulty of the last speech of Plato’s Symposium, for Alcibiades reveals important truths about Socrates and his philosophical practice, yet he seems to be the least suited man to do so and praise philosophy. Offering a more positive account of Alcibiades as a character ...
He was endowed with a physical grace and splendor that captivated the entire city. They did not decline as he grew, but flourished at each stage with new authority and power. He was always highly conscious of his body, vain about its influence. He would speak of his beauty as his ‘amazing good fortune’, and his ‘windfall from the gods ...
Full Work Summary. Apollodorus relates to an unnamed companion a story he learned from Aristodemus about a symposium, or dinner-party, given in honor of the tragedian Agathon. Socrates arrives at the party late, as he was lost in thought on the neighboring porch. After they have finished eating, Eryximachus picks up on a suggestion of Phaedrus ...
Right after Socrates speech, where the prophetess ’ Diotima describes the mysteries of Er ōs, comes the speech of a man notorious for the profanation of mysteries. Alcibiades also makes use of references to sacred mystery rites in his drunken, rambling, and passionate speech about the love of Socrates. Plato uses this juxtaposition of ...
Alcibiades' Speech hen Socrates had done speaking, the company applauded, and Aristophanes was beginning to say something in answer to the reference Socrates had made to his own speech, when suddenly there was a loud knocking at the door of the house, as of revelers, and the sound of a flute-girl was heard.
Jun 1, 2000 · The consensus, that Plato's Symposium is only loosely unified, with the early speeches of little interest and the speech of Alcibiades an appendix, is to be rejected.
