![]() ![]() It must be practiced with grace,Īims at virtue and wisdom. Real love is love of the beautiful sould, good character, and intelligence. The common people have degraded homosexual love by making it mere physicalĪttraction. Two kinds of Eros exist: (a) heavenly and beautiful (b) vulgar and base. Eros is seen in terms of military prowess Eros is the chief casue of virtue and happiness. Lovers will give up their lives for each other, e.g. An armyĬomposed of lovers would be invincible. Love of man for youth stimulates noble and courageous deeds. In the meantime, dinner has been served, and the guests have decided not to get blasted, but instead to talk about `Eros'.Įros deserves to be honored because of his antiquity, as the source of many blessings,Īnd in particular as the Patron of homosexual love. ![]() Aristodemus is invited to crash the party with Socrates, but Socrates stops along the way to think, and thus arrives late. ![]() Apollodorus had heard the story from an eyewitness, one of Socrates' pupils, Aristodemus, who had been a guest at the party.Īristodemus met Socrates, fresh from the Baths, on his way to the symposium honoring Agathon, who had won the tragic prize at the Theater the day before. 172a-174a Introduction: (dramatic date: 400 B.C.)Īpollodorus of Phaleron tells a friend about a dinner party held in 415 B.C., a few months before the great Athenian expedition against Syracuse set out. ![]()
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