Tragedy, comedy and socratic dialogue: the Symposium between the theatrical genres, Socrates between the beauty and the ugliness, ἒρωϛ between the high and the low
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Plato, Symposium, philosophy, comedy, tragedyAbstract
Various readings of some speeches of Plato’s Symposium propose that within them the characters work with a mixture of the tragic and the comic. This article combines these results and adds elements of analysis to construct an interpretation of the dialogue that integrate the previous results into a whole and put them in relation to other aspects of Platonic philosophy. We argue that in the discourses of Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates-Diotima and Alcibiades, and in the Symposium as a whole, Plato opposes various mixtures between the tragic and the comic through which he builds a position about traditional genders. Fron this point of view the socratic-platonic dialogue is the true μεταξύ genre, in a complex analogy with the Socrates figure, on the one hand, and the platonic notion of ἒρωϛ, on the other.
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