Plato’s Symposium

Choose the Speech that you find most compelling from the symposium and the speech that you find the least persuasive and compare the two. What do the speeches you selected tell us about Greek attitudes regarding love and relationships?

Each of the seven people in Plato’s Symposium has interesting views on love and how to reach true love. Some stories are more convincing than others, for instance Aristophanes and Phaedrus stories. Of course some were more farfetched like Diotima’s and Eryximachus’. Reading the Symposium gave me a remarkable insight of what Greek’s attitudes regarding love were. My Personal favorite love story was that of Aristophanes and his three gender theory, on the opposite end of the spectrum, my least favorite was Pausanias and his Heavenly and common idea of love.
In the Symposium Aristophanes had not only my favorite story on love but it is the one that makes the most sense to me in present time. His story goes as......

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