Percy Shelley wrote a "Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks" to accompany his translation of this work. This work describes Penia's seduction of the drunken Poros, resulting in the conceptio
Percy Shelley wrote a "Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks" to accompany his translation of this work. This work describes Penia's seduction of the drunken Poros, resulting in the conception of a god who serves as a spiritual intermediate between the divine and the mortal. A man in this work recalls an upward mental progression beginning with the conception of a single beautiful object and culminating in the conception of absolute beauty, which was described to him by Diotima of Mantineia. In this work, a parable in which three sexes of eight-limbed humans are split in two by Zeus is related by Aristophanes at a party hosted by Agathon. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue featuring a series of discourses on the nature of love.
Percy Shelley wrote a "Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks" to accompany his translation of this work.