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> 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.
>

WB Yeats, "Among School Children":

Or else, to alter Plato's parable,
Into the yolk and egg of the one shell.

Nathan Rose


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