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
stronger power. They can do anything because of love. Therefore, because of love, they can do anything. In the Odyssey, Penelope waited for her husband Odyssey to come back home for twenty years. She loved her husband the whole time. The most valuable things are youth in ones’ life. Because of love, Penelope didn’t marriage with others, her best twenty years was waiting Odyssey. Penelope saw Odyssey as the only mate she will have in her life. Life is short, if someone would spend, and love the same person
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
and philosophers. Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey which became some of Greeks greatest tales. However it was his piece “The Epic of Gilgamesh” that would prove to be most influential to the Greeks. The story shows Gilgamesh, a heroic symbol, becoming an admired leader to his people. This story is told time and time again in many different regions but portrays the same message, which to the Greeks, expressed man’s achievements. In “The Symposium,” Plato references men as “awesome in their strength
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
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
of the quest archetype and the function it serves within society—to provide meaning and a sense of wholeness to otherwise clueless individuals. The most infamous image of the quest archetype in Greek literature is Homer’s figure Odysseus. In his Odyssey, Homer presents great tests for his classical hero. Odysseus became too prideful based on his many successes in the Trojan War. He then refused to give proper thanks to Poseidon for helping him execute the plan of the Trojan horse. Poseidon had sent
influence the people in several different ways. They listen to the tales as a form to live out their lives, yet others viewed them as a form of warning if they were not to obey to the commands of the Gods. Such an example can be viewed within The Odyssey by Homer, which states, for when the gods have made up their minds they do not change them lightly. The gods were feared and worship by many people during the early years of Greece and especially during the Ancient or otherwise known by the Archaic