Dialectical Mysteries: A Study of the Experience of the Eros of Diotima in the Symposium of Plato

In this paper we argue that the imagery of the Diotima-Socrates-Alcibiades triad could be read as a representation and a re-signification of the imagery of the Mysteries carried out in Plato’s Symposium. For this purpose, we will need to have recourse to some images present in the dialogue that seem...

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Autores: da Paz, André, Cornelli, Gabriele
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Brasil
Institución:Faculdade de São Bento (FSB)
Repositorio:Hypnos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.hypnos.org.br:article/627
Acceso en línea:https://hypnos.org.br/index.php/hypnos/article/view/627
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Plato
Plato’s Symposium
Mysteries
dialectics
Platão
Banquete
Mistérios
dialética
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Sumario:In this paper we argue that the imagery of the Diotima-Socrates-Alcibiades triad could be read as a representation and a re-signification of the imagery of the Mysteries carried out in Plato’s Symposium. For this purpose, we will need to have recourse to some images present in the dialogue that seem to reflect elements of marginal Greek religiosity, briefly dwelling thereby on some of the elements that constitute the imagery of the Mysteries in Plato’s time, as well as some of the idiosyncrasies of the historical Alcibiades, especially with regard to the controversies concerning the Eleusinian Mysteries.