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gigipesch 's review for:
The Symposium
by Plato
medium-paced
I find it quite difficult to rate classics, especially translated texts because they simply don’t compare to any sort of modern rating system. I love love Ancient Greece so I found this quite interesting to see all the different perceptions of love. my favourite has always been that fearing their power Zeus split humans into two halves where each longed for their other half.
“and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment: these are the people who pass their whole lives together”
however my struggle with this is just a personal thing, having ADHD and dyslexia always makes it especially difficult to get through translations and classics.
“and when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment: these are the people who pass their whole lives together”
however my struggle with this is just a personal thing, having ADHD and dyslexia always makes it especially difficult to get through translations and classics.