Within Symposium itself, the method to deliver the story occurs through a dialogue. Plato's choice to do this makes Symposium quite unique and revealing. The speakers throughout the text delve deeper and deeper into their discussion of love by urging and sometimes challenging their comrades to push further. The order in which the speakers reveal their own interpretation of love appears to be purposeful for Plato’s intentions. Each man represents a different world view or lens that can be taken when
mythology deals significantly with culture and its factors, as they describe the societies and the people inhabiting it by depicting their everyday life and the state of their land. Both Hephaestus, in Homer’s Iliad, and Odysseus, in Homer’s The Odyssey, set out to portray the cultures that they saw, yet the cultures and societies varied greatly, from Hephaestus illustrating the highly developed societies of the Greek and their culture; while on the other hand, Odysseus seems baffled by how underdeveloped
changed; and the studying of great texts such as the Plato’s Symposium, the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible, and the Bhagavad Gita have contributed to the expansion of my knowledge on such abstract topics. Love holds various meanings that vary from person to person, which is largely what is so remarkable about it. Love is an emotion, a drive, an expression; love is many things combined into one strong pull to some force. In The Symposium, love holds many interpretations by the various speakers, but
As a woman, I really understood how much Medea love to Jason. Medea gave up her princess identity. How was her ambivalence, when she avenged Jason’s betrayal with killed her two sons. I believed Medea’s love to Jason. How strong love. She did pay a price here. It says, most profound hate emerges out of the loss of the deepest love. When Jason abandoned Medea for the king’s daughter, and lied to her that marry to the princess is not for love, therefore, get more power and wealth for her sons. Jason
are these factors. A character is often considered strong or weak based on the language and behavior during the epic or story. That same language along with the person’s traits, can determine whether that character is a great liar or not. In the Odyssey, Odysseus goes to great lengths to lie and deceive the suitors into thinking he’s a beggar. During the fight against the beggar Odysseus downplays the whole situation by stating “Friends, how can an old man, worn down with pain, stand to a young buck
As is already known, Homeric literature served as the model for educating Greek boys and young men, as well male Roman citizens later on in Antiquity. The passages of Homer and Hesiod instructed a decorum which defined proper behavior as unyielding bravery in the field of battle, and the continuous desire for besting an opponent through strident competition, or agon in the Greek. Achilles defined this part of heroic conduct, while Odysseus, through his renowned ability for persuasion, defined the
a glance but no force can compel it to stay. Love. It was the downfall of Troy and the triumph of Odysseus. The dual nature of love in Greek myth as both destruction and salvation may have led to Plato’s unique conceptualization of love. In The Symposium he speaks of two Aphrodites: Common and Heavenly. The first has domain over physical attachments and is considered vulgar. The second, being divine is concerned with the soul, not the body. It is a heavenly love, a love of the mind, the spirit. It
Gender Bias in the Early Greek Culture It’s important to know that discrimination is the unjust treatment of a person or thing based on age, race, and or sexual orientation (CITE THIS). Discrimination is seen throughout the world's history in forms of slavery, social inequality, racial bias, and gender inequality. Unfortunately, women in history also faced discrimination by not having much of the same rights as men did. More specifically, when looking at the history of the Greeks, one can clearly
relentless onslaught of disfiguring radiation (Nace). Materials selected more for their absence of mass than presence of durability. A product of the ever pervasive rocket equation and the binding grip of Earth’s gravitational pull. Moreover, imagine this odyssey as a mission to Pluto, intended to place you as the first person on mars. A proof of concept, affirmation that human expansion is possible. But on this voyage you were exclusively a passenger, the intricate details of the bi-elliptic transfer orbital
1 Introduction The Greek god Zeus–although being one of the most often recurring characters in Greek mythology–shows rather blurred character traits, as in each myth they are adapted to his particular role in the story. While Zeus can appear extremely callous in one tale, he is described as a perfect and kind ruler in another. This paper analyses the discrepancy between different versions of the Greek god Zeus in various ancient Greek tales. My inspiration for writing this paper about Zeus was his