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Apr. 21st, 2024|04:45 pm |
>Aristophanes begins the second series of speeches in which the focus of
the discussion is now on the nature of love, rather than on its human benefits.
This rather playful and enchanting story told by a comic dramatist, could have
Hindu or Babylonian origins, according to Irving Singer. As he says, ìit recounts a
primordial Golden Age, an Age of Heroes, when men were supermen, double
their present condition. In shape they resemble Indian deities with their multiple
limbs and faces; for all we know, the myth may once have represented a struggle
between Eastern and Western cultures
The Platonic Concept of Love:
The Symposium
by Dr. David Naugle
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