Symposium identification

Question 1

-Love is an old god that gives great benefits, like the relationship between an older and younger man

-Love gives lovers the courage to die for one another and be more virtuous

Answer 1

Phaedrus

Question 2

-Common love - equally directed at women and boys, pertains more to physical. Lesser
-Heavenly love - bond between a man and boy and promotes virtue
*Boy can only satisfy lover if he is searching for knowledge and virtue

Answer 2

Pausanius

Question 3

-Love is involved in the balancing of bodily humors, musical harmonies, weather, relationships between man and gods

Answer 3

Eryximachus

Question 4

-Humans existed as one until they were split into two (could be any combination of man and woman)
-These half-humans long for their other half

Answer 4

Aristophanes

Question 5

-Love is the most beautiful god, possessing wonderful things within himself and conferring those qualities on all good things

Answer 5

Agathon

Question 6

-One must love something, specifically something that one does not have
-To love what one has is to desire what one has in the present to have in the future

Answer 6

Socrates

Question 7

-Love is a spirit that exists between a great immortal god and a mortal, dies and is reborn infinitely
-Love desires what it does not have: beauty and wisdom and wishes for them to be his own
-Reproduction is a method by which lovers can attain immortality

Answer 7

Diotima