Platos Symposium

Question 1

Pandemian Eros

Answer 1

common desire for the body rather than the mind ( pan meaning all and demos meaning people )

Question 2

Uranian Eros

Answer 2

heavenly desire - specifically found in pederastic relationships ( ouranos meaning heaven )

Question 3

Pederasty

Answer 3

sexual relationships between an adult male (erastes) and a pubescent boy (eromenos)

Question 4

Aristophanes

Answer 4

Athenian comic playwright - famous for mocking socrates in “the clouds”

Question 5

Alcibiades

Answer 5

athenian general and politician - he believed that love itself was Socrates

Question 6

symposium

Answer 6

a drinking party where ideas were shared

Question 7

in vino veritas

Answer 7

losses the tongue - it was believed that drinking at a symposium encouraged frankness and risk taking in the form of ideas.

Question 8

elechus

Answer 8

the socratic method of examining an idea and refuting arguments to help expand an idea.