3,5: iba a terminarmelo ayer porque me quedaban 10 pág pero me enrollé jugando al Mario bros en la tablet. Por un 2025 con muchos libros

It was by following where his desire and love led him that Apollo discovered the arts of archery, medicine and prophecy, and this makes Apollo a pupil of Love.

We may take this as evidence that Love is a good composer in, broadly, every type of artistic production, because you can't give someone else what you don't have or teach someone what you don't know yourself.

He had the courage to choose to act on behalf of his lover by avenging him: he not only died for him but also died as well as him, since Patroclus was already  dead.

A whole lotta advocacy for boy love… I kid somewhat. But a lot of food for thought on the nature and purpose of love, and its effects on people. It was nice to return to a dialogue style of philosophy after a whole lot of just deluge texts

Banger. Sometimes surprisingly funny and a good thinker. Has ideas that are radical even for today that are weird to grapple with. Undeniably misogynist, but I think the dialogues are made in a way where you're supposed to note the points you can disagree and take issue with and continue the arguing into the real world, which makes them less just a manifesto or doctrine and more a starting point for further thinking down the line. Just like anybody else says, Aristophanes is the highlight, but the character of Socrates definitely shines if not his panegyric.

I used to think philosophers were dull people, and that reading Plato was for dry academics. Talk about prejudice!

Drinking and revelling only moderated mildly by serious discussion about love.

A pure delight to read!

I would have given it a three, but Aristophanes's speech is just genius.