![]() ![]() ![]() Then, “Apollodorus,” he said, “do you know, I have just been looking for you, as I want to hear all about the banquet that brought together Agathon and Socrates and Alcibiades and the rest of that party, and what were the speeches they delivered upon love. The day before yesterday I chanced to be going up to town from my house in Phalerum, when one of my acquaintance caught sight of me from behind, some way off, and called in a bantering tone “Hullo, Phalerian! I say, Apollodorus, wait a moment.” So I stopped and waited. Although it is comical, it hides deep thoughts. ![]() Aristophanes points out that he will speak differently than Pausanias and Eriximachus have done previously. This myth appears in the Banquet of Plato, specifically in the Discourse of Aristophanes. I believe I have got the story you inquire of pretty well by heart. Recommended translations: Platos Symposium: A Translation with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete, trans. Platn: El Banquete: El Mito del Andrgino. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 1993, 2001). Plato's Symposium: A Translation with Commentaries by Allan Bloom and Seth Benardete, trans. ![]()
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