Symposium and Thucidides

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Symposium and Thucidides

• Round Two

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Symposium

• In what ways does Socrates speech in praise of
  Love differ from all the previous ones?
• Make a list, from lowest to highest, of the
  proper objects of Love (according to Diotima).

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Ideal Beauty?
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Satyrs, Symposium, and Alcibiades
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Symposium

• Why do you think Plato ended the Symposium with
  Alcibiades speech? (Whats so special about it
  that it should come after Socrates own speech?)

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The Melian Dialogues

• Why does Athens insist that the only precondition
  for discussion is the self-interest of the
  Melians? How do the Athenians meet each argument
  the Melians advance, keeping in mind this
  precondition?