What point does Pausanias make about the love of women? What is"wantonness"? What kind of love does he recommend/denounce on p. 9? on p. 11-12? (Where is Lacedaemon? What kind ofpeople live th ere?) What does "disinterested" mean?Why does Plato include a physician among the company, do you think? Does he talk like a doctor? How does his outlook colorhis account of love? Look up Asclepius in the dictionary. Who are Urania and Polyhymnia (Hamilton)? The four "elements" wereth ought by the Greeks to be the hot, the cold, the moist, and dry. All things were a combination of these (fish are cold andmoist, the sun is hot and dry, earth is cold and dry, etc.), and balance of them in any living thing was thought to benecessary fo r good health (not a very strange idea). What is "temperance"?What does Aristophanes' reference to "our muse" mean? His description of the original genders is, of course, meant to befunny, but it is also profound. Read his speech carefully and come to class prepared to explain it (I mean be prepared toexplain wh at these creatures looked like--exactly). What is the origin of our belly-button? What does "parts of generation"mean? P. 17, line 8: revise to read "the race might continue; but if man came to man they might at least be satisfied," Whatdoes "andro gynous" mean (what is an "android")? Who is Hephaestus? P. 18, line 3: for "melt" read "weld." What do you thinkof his "message" by the end of his speech?Notice how suspicious Agathon is of Socrates' motives. What does that tell you about Socrates? Is he as simple andstraightforward as he tries to seem? What does Phaedrus imply about Socrates' motives?First Agathon describes Love's beauty, then his virtue (power + goodness). What do you think of his flowery speech? How olddo you think Agathon is?Socrates, of course, comes last. Why? What is the tone of Socrates' opening remarks? (You will have to read a ways in orderto find out.) What is the "Gorgonian head" (Hamilto...
