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Showing posts with label Plato. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Plato. Show all posts
Sunday, August 20, 2023

Were They Or Weren't They? Patrochilles and 5th century Athens

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Gender and sexuality are constructs defined by the society that created them, and there are considerable differences between what ancient Gr...
Saturday, December 24, 2022

M/M: Two Hearts Melting into One, Synesius 152

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A Christian Author Using Plato’s Myth of Soulmates Name :   Synesius of Cyrene Date :   373 – 414 CE Region :   Cyrene [mode...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Freeing A Friend: Phaedo of Elis, Aulius Gellius 2.18.1-5

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  Name : Aulus Gellius  Date : 125 – 180 CE Region :  Rome [modern Italy] Citation :  Athenian Nights 2.18.1-5 Socrat...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Two Bodies, One Mind United In Love and Friendship: Lucian, Toxaris 62

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  Two Bodies, One Mind United in Love and Friendship Name : Lucian Date : 125 – 180 CE Region : [modern Turkey] Citation : ...
Sunday, March 27, 2022

M/M: A Lost Soul, Missed by All...and Loved By Me, Plato, Greek Anthology 7.99

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Name : Plato Date : 428 BCE – 348 BCE Region : Athens [modern Greece] Citation :  Greek Anthology 7.99 The Fates sp...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

M/M: You are my Shining Star: an Epigram Attributed to Plato

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Kisses and the Stars Name : Plato Date : 428 BCE – 348 BCE Region : Athens [modern Greece] Citation :  Florilegium Grae...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

In Praise of Sappho: Greek Anthology 9.66 & 9.506

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Antipater of Sidon (ix.66): When Mnemosyne heard Sappho's sweet voice,  she wondered if there were a tenth Muse. Mnemosyne Sapphus* audi...
Monday, November 11, 2019

M/M: To Die for Love: Achilles and Patroclus, Plato, Symp. 179e–180a

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Name : Plato Date : 428 BCE – 348 BCE Region : Athens [modern Greece] Citation :  Symposium 179e-180a [The gods] h...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

Soulmates, Celestial Bodies, and The Origin of Love: Aristophanes' Speech in Plato's Symposium (Symp.189ff)

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Name : Plato Date : 428 BCE – 348 BCE Region : Athens [modern Greece] Citation :  Symposium 189d – 191b It’s rea...