El convit
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- ~32.200 paraules · 153 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APAPlató. (n.d.). Symposium [El convit]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/symposium
- MLAPlató. Symposium [El convit]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/symposium.
- ChicagoPlató. Symposium [El convit]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/plato/symposium.
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De què tracta
Un sopar a casa del poeta Agató on cada convidat fa un elogi de l'amor: què busca Eros, d'on ve, i com s'enfila de la bellesa d'un cos a la bellesa mateixa.
Context i història
El sopar se situa l'any 416 aC, quan Agató celebrava el premi de la seva primera tragèdia; Plató el va escriure dècades després, cap al 385-370. Hi desfilen els discursos més cèlebres del platonisme — la mitja taronja d'Aristòfanes, l'escala de Diotima, la irrupció final d'Alcibíades borratxo elogiant Sòcrates en lloc de l'amor. Cap diàleg no ha estat tan llegit fora de la filosofia: la idea mateixa d'«amor platònic» surt d'aquí, per bé que el que hi diu Plató és força més estrany i més interessant.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
have half their strength, and we shall have twice as many sacrifices. He spake, and split them as you might split an egg with an hair; and when this was done, he told Apollo to give their faces a twist and re-arrange their persons, taking out the wrinkles and tying the skin in a knot about the navel. The two halves went about looking for one another, and were ready to die of hunger in one another's arms. Then Zeus invented an adjustment of the sexes, which enabled them to marry and go their way to the business of life. Now the characters of men differ accordingly as they are derived from the original man or the original woman, or the original man-woman. Those who come from the man-woman are lascivious and adulterous; those who come from the woman form female attachments; those who are a section of the male follow the male and embrace him, and in him all their desires centre. The pair are inseparable and live together in pure and manly affection; yet they cannot tell what they want of one another. But if Hephaestus were to come to them with his instruments and propose that they should be melted into one and remain one here and hereafter, they would acknowledge that this was the very expression of their want. For love is the desire of the whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love. There was a time when the two sexes were only one, but now God has halved them,--much as the Lacedaemonians have cut up the Arcadians,--and if they do not behave themselves he will divide them again, and they will hop about with half a nose and face in basso relievo. Wherefore let us exhort all men to piety, that we may obtain the goods of which love is the author, and be reconciled to God, and find our own true loves, which rarely happens in this world. And now I must beg you not to suppose that I am alluding to Pausanias and Agathon (compare Protag.), for my words refer to all mankind everywhere.…