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Contrivance - made up

Poesis (Greek word for poetry) - to make up

Mythos- story
Logos - Greek word for truth
*myth + logos = mythology...the story of truths

Diotima's speech is so interesting because it tells a story

There are 3 levels
1. naivete
2. skepticism
3. where story and truth come together

Stage two can be very scary. In class we discussed this stage relation to finding out that Santa Clause was not real or when Dorothy and the gang found out that the wizard was just a man behind a curtain.

The Speech of Diotima suggest that the parents of Eros are poverty (or want) and contrivance.

Diotima also suggests in this speech that everyone is pregnant, both in body and in soul

"Everyone would rather have such children than human ones, and would look up to Homer, Hesiod, and the other good poets with envy and admiration for the offspring they have left behind - offspring, which, because they are immortal themselves, provide their parents with immortal glory and remembrance" (pg.57)

Philosophers are the greatest lovers of the world because the greatest lovers of the world are those who purse wisdom

We have defined extreme tragedy as "Life is not worth it" now we define comedy as "even shameful life is better than no life at all...Give me Life!!"

There are two types of comedy
*old comedy - talks about current politics, old men which at the end of the play they are regenerated somehow
*new comedy - which is simply boy wants girl - boy can't have girl - boy gets girl at the end

Aristophanes is the only survivor of Old Comedy