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A review by zhakoisreading
The Symposium by Plato
5.0
Pleasantly surprised by the amount of speeches I found not only entertaining, but truthful (to a certain extent).
A great, easy and simply fun introduction to Greek philosophy.
(Extremely gay! Double points for that!)
Personal favorite speech was Agathon’s, since, in my opinion, it had the most modern interpretation of love, as well as the closest to my heart and my own view on loving.
A great, easy and simply fun introduction to Greek philosophy.
(Extremely gay! Double points for that!)
Personal favorite speech was Agathon’s, since, in my opinion, it had the most modern interpretation of love, as well as the closest to my heart and my own view on loving.
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.