We started reading Plato’s Symposium in class. After Phaedrus, Pausanias and Erissimaco, Aristophanes speaks: and his speech is one of Plato’s best known things.Aristophanes tells a…
Plato, in the Phaedrus, tells Socrates a myth that explains the invention of writing.…
The story of a strong woman, raped, demonized and then killed by patriarchy does not seem just an ancient myth.…