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Subject: Re: Reception of Plato's Symposium
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Apr 2001 05:10:06 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 08:31:44 -0400
From: Lee D Perlman <lperlman@MIT.EDU>


Does anyone know instances where Plato's Symposium has been portrayed as if
Aristophanes' speech were the meat, or doctrine of the dialogue?  That is,
where someone says something like "Plato claimed that we were once merged with
somone else, and have been split apart..."  I'm interested in all sorts of
occurences of this, in 'high', 'low' or any other level of culture.

Thanks,

Lee Perlman
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