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The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον, ... who had been attacked by Aristophanes in The Clouds. The Symposium is a response to The Frogs, ...
A female aulos-player entertains men at a symposium on this Attic red-figure. The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a Socratic dialogue written by Xenophon in the late 360s B.C. [1] In it, Socrates and a few of his companions attend a symposium (a dinner party at which Greek aristocrats could enjoy entertainment and discussion) hosted by Kallias for the young man Autolykos.
Symposium: Aristophanes of Cydathenaeum, son of Philippus Symposium: Apology; Epigram 18: Aristotle of Thorae, son of Timocrates Parmenides: Aspasia of Miletus ...
Aristodemus is described as a barefooted runt of low birth in Plato's Symposium, [3] while Xenophon refers to him as Aristodemus the dwarf ("Ἀριστόδημον τὸν μικρόν Aristódēmon tón mikrón"). He was a citizen of the same deme as that of the comedian Aristophanes, with whom he appears in the Symposium.
Aristophanes is characterised as a celebrity playwright, and most of his plays have the title formula: One of Our [e.g] Slaves has an Enormous Knob (a reference to the exaggerated appendages worn by Greek comic actors) Aristophanes Against the World was a radio play by Martyn Wade and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home. 1869.. Agathon (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə θ ɒ n /; Ancient Greek: Ἀγάθων; c. 448 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian tragic poet whose works have been lost.
It is said that humans were androgynous. In the Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present the idea that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and one head made of two faces; Zeus split these creatures in half, leaving each torn creature to search for its missing counterpart. [13] The severed humans were a miserable lot.
The playing of music during the kōmos is also mentioned by Aristophanes (Thesmophoriazusae 104, 988) and Pindar (Olympian 4.9, Pythian 5.22). There are also depictions of torch-lit processions in vase painting, yet it is not always clear from the evidence of vases if they depict symposia , choruses or kōmoi .