Socrates & Alcibiades, the Lovers You Never Knew You Needed (Plato’s Symposium Part 2)
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The Lovers You Never Knew You Needed, Part 2
Socrates and El Cibiaty's, The Lovers You Never Knew You Needed, Plato's Imposium Part 2. Aristophanes began last week by explaining that in the early days of humanity, humans looked very different from now. They were doubled, basically, but also seemingly rounder. But these oddly shaped humans weren't docile and instead they threatened the gods,. Zeus knew he had to do something about it, but he didn't want to wipe humans off the map. Instead, he determined to weaken them and their threat by splitting them in half.
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