LCT9: Aphrodite's (continued)

Question 1

Plato

Answer 1

4th century BC Athenian philosopher

• wrote dialogues featuring his teacher Socrates
• The Symposium = dialogue about a drinking party (men-only drinking party)

Question 2

Aristophanes’ myth - what were the three original kinds of human beings?

Answer 2

Male - sun
Female - earth
Both - moon

Question 3

Characteristics of humans

Answer 3

doubled and completely round

Question 4

What do the humans do? What happens?

Answer 4

attacks the gods –> Zeus splits them in half

Question 5

Each human desires what?

Answer 5

reunion with original “matching half”

- “love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete”