1 Eros, or love, is the topic for discussion in Plato's Symposium. ... This is ironic because from the beginning of the Symposium it is made explicitly clear that women are not wise enough to know and discuss eros. ... The excerpt (206A-206E) taken from Diotima's speech highlights the main ideas of the speech. ... Here Socrates admires Diotima in the same way that everyone in the Symposium admires Socrates. Throughout the Symposium, eros is constantly used in conjunction with homosexuality. ...

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In reading Horace's Satires and Epistles and Plato The Symposium, a very ironic discovery can be made. ... He does not put himself on a heavenly level, like Diotima in Plato's Symposium, but guarantees his readers that although he has knowledge of how to live a satisfying life and can administer advice on it; he too struggles against his damning nature. Plato's Symposium is a collection of speeches, made by a group of social degenerates about love. The first few speeches were fairly vague and uninteresting. ... Previously Socrates had been questioning Agathon about his spee...

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(Symposium, 37)" Love inspires people to do great things, and is the greatest source of pleasure there is. ... The people in Plato's Symposium are truly great and wise men. ... (Symposium, 20)" The moral value of this sentence is questionable. ... Agathon's speech is masterful. ... His speech is, again, not so much a speech as a dialog between himself and Diotima, a woman he claims taught him the art of love. ...

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In the beginning, according to Aristophanies, there were three types of people instead of the two we know today. The male were the offspring of the sun, while females were born from the earth and androgynous were the progeny of the moon. These three gender did not embody the physical characteristi...

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