cquire this virtue, "human nature can find no better workmate than Love". Both Socrates and Aristophanes praise the work of love, however, under thecondition that love is honored. In many respect, love is omnipotent; from it we can extract the power to pursuit virtue and immortality. It was perhaps from his knowledge of beautiful bodies that Michaelangelo painted the most exquisite portraits of human anatomy. Throughout their speeches, Socrates and Aristophanes speak of a recurrent theme of love; it's ultimate end beatitude. Though, the speeches are set in different regard and ideologies, they are in many respect, similar. That is , to acquire or unite with good and beauty to embrace happiness. The speech of Aristophanes indeed, foreshadows that of Socrates'.In Greek culture around the time of Plato, the perfect ideal person was also considered. The piece has a great amount of detail and its weight is shifted from perfectbalance. The subject is depicted in a performing a perfect act. Platos idea that there was a perfect world of ideas affected this pieces subject and the subjects action. Many works of this time period were sculptures that were meant to be viewed from all angles, attempting to be a closer match to that of the ideal. This idea that the ideal world was real and what matter not the physical also effect the actions depicted in many works of this time period. Most of the works are depicting an ideal Greek person performing a noble act not just a mundane common act. Many of the works are also just a still image of a figure from a single moment in time. All of the male sculptures appear in the nude because they represent a perfect man with nothing to hide. These are some of the artistic conventions that were influenced by Platos ideas. There are many different aspects of Greek art that can be accredited to Plato for creating. Among them was the "Perfect" figure that resented the ideal person that existed in the world of ideas...
