Frame or a story within a story
*the frame just distances us from the story
The Symposium is about love
philla- love
sophia - wisdom
*philosophy is the love of wisdom
Phaedrus - rhetorician
Pausanias - lawyer
Eryximachus - doctor
Aristophanes - comic playwright
Agathon - tragic playwright
Aristophanes was supposed to go before Eryximachus but because Aristophanes had the hiccups, they switched turns and the good doctor gave him several ideas on how to get ride of his hiccups.
lover - erastes - older male - can't control themselves
beloved - eromenos - young boy - can't control the lover
The relationship between the two males doesn't create any issues. Issues meaning children.
aesthetic - beauty
Socrates on the physical level is the erastes
Alcibiades on the spiritual level is the erastes
Pandemos (physical love) vs. Urania (spiritual love)
Dr. Sexson shared with the class a very life changing conversation with us between himself and a lady he sat next to on a plane ride home. Along with the Eleusinian Mysteries this woman followed the idea of something said, something done and something shown.
*What she said: I just wanted to please you.
*What she did: gave him a package that still sits on his book self unopened
*What she showed: the inked numbers on her left wrist
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