CLASSIC 10A Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Penia, Delian League, Agathon
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Speech of socrates: socrates responds to agathon: not beautiful but desiring the beautiful; i. e. lacking it, speech of diotima distancing: Eros is in-between": neither beautiful nor ugly, neither god nor mortal. Son of poros (=resource) and penia (=poverty) Neither wise nor stupid: initiation into erotics", step-by-step process. Your physical attraction to one person should lead to you to understand desire and the ideas of beauty and the good. Structure of bk1: 2-19: archaeology (minos, agamemnon, mycenae, trojan war, 20-23: historical method. Keep as close as possible to actual words said. Make speakers say what was called for by the situation. Absence of romantic elements less easy to read: 24-65: causes of the war (epidamnus 435bc, corcyca 433bc, Conflict between the delian league (athens and allies) and the. Peloponnesian league (sparta and allies: 66-88: debate at sparta and declaration of war (spartan king.
