The Symposium Reading Answers Phaedrus 1. According to Phaedrus love is the most ancient of all the gods. Also the greatest
god because only love drives people to die for each other. Lastly because it is the source if goodness and happiness. Pausanias 1.
Pausanias doesn’t think Phaedrus explained love properly because he didn’t specify what love he is talking about. According to
Pausanias there are two types of love, and there is one of the two that should be praised. 2. The two types of love are, common
love and the other is heavenly love.3 He describes common love as physical love directed towards women and men, people that
are attracted to the appearance and have affairs with young boys who do not know better. Then he goes on to describe heavenly
love as directed to the mind and only towards grown mature male only and as much more “intelligent” and “vigorous”.
Eryximachus 1. Eryximachus goes on to say that he thinks Pausanias made a good point that there are two types of Love but he
doesn’t agree with the conclusion. According to Eryximachus Love is just physical but it is in all aspects mind, animals, nature,
everything that exists.3. He relates love to medicine sense he is a doctor saying that love is different for a healthy person versus a
diseased person. That it is right to “gratify the good parts, but wrong to gratify the bad and diseased parts”. He says that medicine
is fully governed by the love god. 4. Eryximachus goes to compare the rhythm and harmony is music to rhythm and harmony in
love, just as music makes agreement between divergent notes same with love, it makes agreement with divergent notes.
Aristophanes 1. The three original human beings were man and women and the third was “androgynous” which is a combination
both. Each human being had one head with two faces and four arms and legs. They supported themselves on all limbs. 2.Zeus
decided to cut them in half to slow them down, that way the humans still existed without being able to attack the gods. 3. After
they were split the original humans didn’t want to be apart from each other or do anything apart so they stuck together dying from
hunger and inactivity. 4. Zeus rectifies this issue by moving their genitals to the front of their bodies, that way men can mate with
women in order to continue the human race. From this also came the homosexuals, the women that are attracted to women and
men who were attracted to other men. 5. Aristophanes defines love as “the name for the desire and pursuit of wholeness.”
Agathon 1. Agathon describes love as young, sensitive, and fluid in shape. 2. He says love turns everyone into a poet. 3. According
to Agathon love is of something. 4. According to Socrates we love things that we do not have. 5. Socrates makes Agathon admit
that love wouldn’t be wholly without beauty, thus if love is wholly with beauty, it is seeking it. Therefore love must be ugly.
Diotima 1. Diotima thinks love is not a god because he is not in possession of good and beautiful things. She goes on to describe
that the gods are beautiful and happy, so if they are they are in possession of good and beautiful things. 2. Diotima says love is a
great spirit, between a god and a human. 3. Diotima says that these great spirits carry messages between humans and the gods.
Also that they interconnect the universe by filling the gap between the gods and the humans. 4. She thinks people are confused
because she believes love has nothing to do with making the person complete if it is not good. She goes on to say “The point is that
the only object of people love is the good, don’t you agree?” 5. Diotima describes different stages of love. The first stage is the
physical, a young boy attracted to a body. The second stage is being able to appreciate a beautiful mind regardless of the way the
body looks. This will mature into being able to love intelligence rather than just the physical by its self. Thus reaching the stage of
finding the beauty in everything, this is the ultimate love. 6. Socrates speech was different because he was not sharing his thought
but someone else’s. Alcibiades 1. Alcibiades arrives quite intoxicated and asks if it is ok to join them that drunk. He sits on the
couch beside Agathon not realizing who the third person on the couch is. As he turns he realizes it is Socrates and jumps and
shouts. Alcibiades claims that Socrates turns up where he least expects him, while Socrates defends himself saying that sense he
has been loving Alcibiades, he has been really jealous of other attractive men and begins shouting. 2. I think Alcibiades wanted
everyone to drink so he can try and get Socrates drunk, although no one had ever seen him drunk before. 3. Alcibiades offers a
speech of praise toward Socrates to share what he calls the truth about what happened with them. 4. Socrates has an effect like
the flute player, Alcibiades feels it is like a spell. 5. Alcibiades makes a comparison example with Achilles and how he can be
compared to Brasidas. His point in that is to say that no matter how you look at Socrates he is uncompareable past and present
because he is so peculiar. 6. He goes on to compare him to the statue of Sileni, although ugly inside it contained golden figures of
gods. He also compares him to satyr Marsyas who cast spells with flutes, saying that Socrates does the same except with his words.
ARCHITECTURE VOCAB: Post-and-lintel – an architectural structure consisting of horizontal beams laid across open spaces
between vertical supports.Tunnel vault – arches placed back to back to enclose space Arcade- Several arches placced side by side
Groin vault- Tunnel vaults meeting at right angles Cantilever – An overwhelming beam or floor supported in which the walls
support themselves Bearing-wall- A system of architectural structure in which the walls support themselves Skeleton frame – A
system of erchitectural structure in which a framework supports the building and the walls are attached to the frame Scale- the
relationship of the size of a building to the human form Context- The environment surrounding a work of architechture Function-
the basic purpose of the building Prestressed concrete- Concrete using metal rods and wires under stress or tension to cause
structural forces to flow in predetermined directions. Ferroconcrete – Concrete cast in place with metal reinforcement embedded
in the concrete
MUSIC VOCAB: Concerto – A composition for one or more solo instruments, accompanied by an orchestra, typically in three
movement. Fugue- A musical composition in a fixed form form in which a theme is developed by counterpoint. Oratorio – A large
choral work for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, developed in the Baroque period Suite – A set of dance-inspired movements
written in the same key but differing in tempo, meter and character Symphony – A lengthy orchestral composition, usually in four
movements Melody- A succession of sounds with rhythmic and tonal organization Monophony- A type of musical texture using a
single musical like without accomplishment Polyphony – A type of musical texture utilizing two or more melodic lines of relatively
equal interest performed at the same time Homophony – A type of musical texture in which chords accompany one main melody
Sonata form- A type of musical structure employing exposition, development, and recapitulation sections Opera- A staged, musical
/ theatrical work in which music predominates.
