Week 7: The party-crasher
the remainder of the Symposium including Alcibiades’ speech (212d – 223d)
Consider Alcibiades’ appearance and demeanor: are they significant?
Is it significant that Alcibiades does not see Socrates at first?
What point is Alcibiades trying to make? Do we see more clearly than he does?
Is it significant the Socrates is last seen discussing whether playwrights should be able to write both tragedy and comedy?
Is Alcibiades a tragic figure? A comic figure?
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