Information about Symposium (xenophon)
Xenophon's Symposium records the discussion of Socrates
and company at a dinner given by Callias for his eromenos Autolycus, son of Lycon (not to be confused with the Lycon who was one of Socrates' prosecutors). 421 BC is the dramatic date of the work.
While Plato's Symposium consists of a series of lengthy speeches in praise of love, Xenophon's is dominated by witty repartee.
A contest of words emerges between Socrates and Callias, and each of the symposiasts is asked to describe the thing which he prides himself on most. All their answers are playful or paradoxical: Socrates, for one, prides himself on his knowledge of the art of pimping.
The story comes to a climax when Socrates praises the love Callias had for a youth named Autolycus. The speech parodies or pastiches the erotic speeches in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, at one point taking issue directly with the proposal of an army of lovers.
Henry Graham Dakyns, a Victorian-era scholar who translated many works by Plato and Xenophon, believed that Plato knew of this work, and that it influenced him to some degree when he wrote his own Symposium.
Yet, throughout most of the twentieth century, scholarly opinion took the references to the army of lovers as proof that Xenophon had based his work on Plato's. Though some scholars have argued that the long speech of Socrates contains later additions, and opinion is divided as to which author was first to write a Socratic symposium, a work considered the standard study of this piece as of early 2000 holds that Xenophon wrote the Symposium in the second half of the 360s, benefiting from Plato's former Socratic literature.[1]
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While Plato's Symposium consists of a series of lengthy speeches in praise of love, Xenophon's is dominated by witty repartee.
A contest of words emerges between Socrates and Callias, and each of the symposiasts is asked to describe the thing which he prides himself on most. All their answers are playful or paradoxical: Socrates, for one, prides himself on his knowledge of the art of pimping.
The story comes to a climax when Socrates praises the love Callias had for a youth named Autolycus. The speech parodies or pastiches the erotic speeches in Plato's Symposium and Phaedrus, at one point taking issue directly with the proposal of an army of lovers.
Henry Graham Dakyns, a Victorian-era scholar who translated many works by Plato and Xenophon, believed that Plato knew of this work, and that it influenced him to some degree when he wrote his own Symposium.
Yet, throughout most of the twentieth century, scholarly opinion took the references to the army of lovers as proof that Xenophon had based his work on Plato's. Though some scholars have argued that the long speech of Socrates contains later additions, and opinion is divided as to which author was first to write a Socratic symposium, a work considered the standard study of this piece as of early 2000 holds that Xenophon wrote the Symposium in the second half of the 360s, benefiting from Plato's former Socratic literature.[1]
References
- Strauss, Leo; Xenophon's Socrates, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1972.
- Xenophon; The Shorter Socratic Writings: "Apology of Socrates to the Jury," "Oeconomicus," and "Symposium," trans. and with interpretive essays by Robert C. Bartlett, with Thomas Pangle and Wayne Ambler, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, The Agora Editions, 1996.
External links
- Project Gutenberg has the e-text of Dakyns' translation of Xenophon's Symposium
Xenophon (In Greek Ξενοφῶν, ca. 431 – 355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates.
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For other uses, see Symposium (disambiguation).
Symposium originally referred to a drinking party (the Greek verb sympotein means "to drink together") but has since come to refer to any academic conference, whether or not drinking takes place...... Click the link for more information.
SOCRATES is the European Community action programme in the field of education. The second phase of the programme covers the period January 1 2000 to December 31 2006. It draws on the experiences of the first phase (1995-1999) building on the successful aspects of the programme,
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Callias (in Greek Kαλλιας), son of Hipponicus by the woman who married Pericles 1 , third head of one of the most distinguished Athenian families to bear the name of Callias, was said to be notorious for his
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eromenos (Greek ἐρώμενος, pl. "eromenoi") was an adolescent boy who was in a love relationship with an adult man, known as the erastes (ἐραστής).
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In Greek mythology, Autolycus (Greek Αὐτόλυκος - 'Lone Wolf') was the son of Chione and Hermes.
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Lycon may refer to:
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- Lycon, a son of King Hippocoon of Sparta in Greek mythology
- Lycon, a prosecutor in the trial of Socrates mentioned in Plato's dialogue, the Apology
- Asyut, Egypt, a city whose Latin name was Lycon
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The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a series of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium
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PLATO was one of the first generalized Computer assisted instruction systems, originally built by the University of Illinois and later taken over by Control Data Corporation (CDC), who provided the machines it ran on.
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Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973), was a German-born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy.
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Thomas Lee Pangle (born 1944) is an American political scientist. He currently holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and from 1979 to 2004 was University Professor in the Department of Political
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Project Gutenberg
Location Salt Lake City, UT
Established 1971
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