Symposium

Sections

1.1 – 1.4 1.5 – 1.8 1.9 – 1.11 1.12 – 1.14 1.15 – 1.16 2.1 – 2.2 2.3 – 2.3 2.4 – 2.5 2.6 – 2.9 2.10 – 2.12 2.13 – 2.16 2.17 – 2.19 2.20 – 2.22 2.23 – 2.25 2.26 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.3 3.4 – 3.5 3.6 – 3.7 3.8 – 3.11 3.12 – 3.14 4.1 – 4.3 4.4 – 4.6 4.7 – 4.9 4.10 – 4.13 4.14 – 4.16 4.17 – 4.19 4.20 – 4.22 4.23 – 4.26 4.27 – 4.29 4.30 – 4.31 4.32 – 4.34 4.35 – 4.37 4.38 – 4.41 4.42 – 4.44 4.45 – 4.46 4.47 – 4.48 4.49 – 4.51 4.52 – 4.55 4.56 – 4.58 4.59 – 4.61 4.62 – 4.63 4.64 – 5.2 5.3 – 5.5 5.6 – 5.8 5.9 – 6.1 6.2 – 6.5 6.6 – 6.7 6.8 – 6.9 6.10 – 7.2 7.3 – 7.5 8.1 – 8.4 8.5 – 8.8 8.9 – 8.12 8.13 – 8.16 8.17 – 8.19 8.20 – 8.22 8.23 – 8.26 8.27 – 8.29 8.30 – 8.30 8.31 – 8.33 8.34 – 8.35 8.36 – 8.38 8.39 – 8.39 8.40 – 8.40 8.41 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 9.5 – 9.7

İngilizce Yunanca

4.17 But more than that, beauty is not to be contemned on this ground, either, that it soon passes its prime; for just as we recognize beauty in a boy, so we do in a youth, a full-grown man, or an old man. Witness the fact that in selecting garlandbearers for Athena they choose beautiful old men, thus intimating that beauty attends every period of life.

4.18 Furthermore, if it is pleasurable to attain one’s desires with the good will of the giver, I know very well that at this very moment, without uttering a word, I could persuade this boy or this girl to give me a kiss sooner than you could, Socrates, no matter how long and profoundly you might argue.

4.19 How now? exclaimed Socrates. You boast as though you actually thought yourself a handsomer man than me. Of course, was Critobulus’s reply; otherwise I should be the ugliest of all the Satyrs ever on the stage. Now Socrates, as fortune would have it, really resembled these creatures.This is regarded by some as a comment interpolated in the text, though doubtless true enough. Plato (Symp. 215 A, B, E; 216 C, D; 221 D, E; cf. 222 D) represents Alcibiades as likening Socrates to the Sileni and particularly to the Satyr Marsyas. Vase paintings and statues give an idea of the Greek conception of their coarse features. They regularly formed the chorus in the Satyr-plays that were given in connection with tragedies.

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