Socrates & Alcibiades, the Lovers You Never Knew You Needed (Plato’s Symposium Part 2)
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Aristophanes' Speech to Agathon
Aristophanes clarifies too that he doesn't want the men listening to think he's only trying for comedy. He emphasizes that they are cut from the all male original form, finding love and attraction in other men. Agathon is up first, and then Socrates himself. They speak of Agathon as a trigetian, as this dialogue takes place shortly after he's won the Dionysia.
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