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284 - John Vervaeke and Jacob Howland - The Symposium

The Symbolic World

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The Symposium on Agathon's Passion

The symposium is set dramatically because we actually know I mean agathon was a Historically existing individual. Some people have speculated that on the night of the symposium when at the end of the dialogue al-sabaidis comes in completely drunk with a bunch of Uh his sort of coterie friends. That might have been the night that al-Sabaidis Participated in or was alleged to participate in The desecration of the herms now there were these statues of hermies and somebody went around and by the way the statues of herMies He's sort of a god of the crossroads and stuff so there were b intersections and Athens and statues of her m

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