Socrates & Alcibiades, the Lovers You Never Knew You Needed (Plato’s Symposium Part 2)
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Myth of Romantic Love
This week, we return to a dinner and drinking party where the men of Plato's dialogue discussed love. The discussions at their core are in favor of two men being romantically and sexually in love. That is all to say, those relationships will come up again in this episode because they were just an enormous part of the lives of the men who are being fictionalized in this dialogue and in Plato's world itself.
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