The guests that attend the specific symposium that Plato discusses are Phaedrus, Pausania, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, and Socrates.Įach guest attempts the challenge of giving a eulogy of what he believes eros is. Taking place in Ancient Greece one gets a taste for what formal drinking parties were like, as well as the homosexual or homo-erotic lifestyle of the men of the time. A Symposium is a semi-formal banquet consisting of only men, followed by ceremonial toasts and drinking.
While eros will refer to love in this paper, Eros is also the name of the Greek god of love. Plato’s famous piece of literature, The Symposium, is striking with its speeches of love, or eros, which translates to desire.
0 kommentar(er)
