Love Flashcards
Aristophanes theory
soulmates. Love is the ‘pursuit of wholeness’. designed to restore the human form.
Phaedrus theory
Love between two men causes the development of positive traits ‘courage’ and ‘loyalty’. Homoerotic men are less likely to act out of cowardice as a man ‘feels most ashamed in front of his lover.’ Sacred band of Thebes context.
Pausanius theory
Pandemion Eros, sexual love, felt by both sexes, ‘this is the kind of love inferior people feel’. Uranian eros is men alone, there must be desire for ‘education and wisdom’.
Diotima ladder of love
Love of a body, love of bodies, love of a mind, love of minds, love of knowledge.
‘slavishly attached’
‘foolish’
Diotima immortality
sexual reproduction is ‘divine’. ‘this is how mortals create immortality through pregnancy and birth’
knowledge reproduction. Men only. ‘children of this partnership are mor ebeautiful and more immortal’
Diotima defining love
the desire to have the good forever.
function is giving birth in mind and body
in between, mortal & immortal, beauty & ugliness, wisdom & knowledge
Agathon
love is the youngest most beautiful god. he is fluid and only settles in soft people, never ugliness.
Eryximachus
love should be balanced
sappho on love of beauty
loeb 16 - criticises Helen, who is loved because of her beauty, ‘abandoned her husband’, ‘without a thought for her daughter’
sappho on love of character
‘handsome man is only good to look at, a good man becomes handsome’.
Anactoria’s description ‘lovely walk’, ‘gleaming face’
Sappho love as the will of the gods
