GRK 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Agathon, Eryximachus, Conditionality
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Involves an older man (erastes) and a younger man (eromenos) Older man teaches younger man about politics and introduces them to important people. Wasn"t meant to be a sexual relationship but often was anyway. Normally stops when younger man becomes mature (grows a beard) but. Speeches they remain friends: phaedrus eros is the oldest and most honored of all gods because affection is natural and incredibly common, pausanius says there are two kinds of love. Heavenly love between two men pure love with no physical basis and no strings attached: eryximachus defines love as medicine which is sort of self-fulfilling because he is a doctor, aristophanes comedic speech. People were spheres but they tried to overthrow gods so the gods decided to punish them by cutting them in half. Eros is the desire to find your other half and become whole again not necessarily a man and a woman.
