#Plato’s symposium

[taxonomicons]

how am I supposed to be normal about you I want to share a spine

[alcibiades-official]

Cool things in the Symposium which we don’t talk about enough:

- Aristophanes claiming all politicans are gay („Those who are cut from the male gender go for males…men like this are the only once who, when grown up, end up as politicians“)

- Them planning to play truth or dare („Once you’ve spoken, you can order Socrates to do whatever you want, and he can do the same to the person on his right and so on.“)

- lesbians („female homosexuals“)

- The moon as an Enby symbol („the parent of the…combined gender [was] the moon.“)

- Asexual Socrates („You see that Socrates is erotically attracted to beautiful boys…This behaviour is just his outer covering.“)

- Tips against hiccups („ your hiccups might stop if you hold your breath for a long time; if they don’t, gargle with some water. If they’re really persistent, get something to tickle your nose with, and make yourself sneeze.“) ((no seriously the water gargling one helps 99% of the time in my experience))

- Drinking being bad for you („It has become clear from my medical experience that drunkenness is harmful for human beings.“)

- Socrates getting all his knowledge from women (Diotima of Manitnea)

[ceo-of-sloppy-men]

So I’ve recently been listening to an audiobook of Plato’s Symposium, and I have his description of original humans stuck in my head. The one where humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces, but Zeus split them apart, condemning them to spend the rest of their lives in search of their other half.

And like a lovesick fool I’m hung up on it, because I’ve stumbled upon a person who is a reflection of me to such a high degree that the timing is uncanny. The realist in me argues that I’ve known them for little more than two months. The romantic in me argues that there’s a reason for everything in the universe and to stumble upon the Symposium now is more than mere coincidence.

[the-red-shelf-of-westmarch]

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

- Plato

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Anselm Feuerbach (German, 1829-1880) Plato's Symposium, Detail, 1869

[kebriones]

Good ol' Symposium Alcibiades sketch

[thedarkmongoose]

yeah, these two faces totally say “platonic relationship”

[becauseitwasi]

insane man insane

[peapodd]

You gotta love Ancient Greek philosophy

[discoursets]

— red blue dilapidated study space — ⋆˙

[faustandfurious]

Okay let’s settle this once and for all

[delphic-maxims]

about alcibiades in the symposium (Nussbaum)

[kaleb-is-definitely-sane]

I feel so bad for everyone who decided to read the Iliad after reading Plato, Shakespeare or Madeline Miller because... they lied to yall lol

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Anselm Feuerbach (German, 1829-1880) Plato's Symposium, Detail, 1869

[intermundia]

before ppl follow me on here i need them to know two things: the first is that ive spent the last three years studying the prequels with approximately the same amount of fervor as i studied ancient greek and latin to get my degree, and the second is that the motivating factor to all this is because i wholeheartedly believe that obi-wan and anakin need to fuck raw about it athenian style

[kebriones]

day 389 of being normal about the symposium