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Sorry Socrates, I preferred Agathon’s speech to yours! Although I did chuckle when he said “no human child has ever yet earned his father a cult”. Little did he know…
I can’t possibly comment on the quality of the translation, but it read well to my amateur eyes. Although the use of the word ‘boyfriend’ made me giggle every time. ‘Socrates’ boyfriend’. What a phrase lol.
Anyway, all that aside, I’m glad I read this, especially for Aristophanes and Agathon’s speeches. My favourite quote about love: “He is gracious and gentle; adored by the wise, admired by the gods; craved when absent, prized when present […] For the whole of heaven and the whole of earth, he is matchless and peerless as governor and guide.”
I can’t possibly comment on the quality of the translation, but it read well to my amateur eyes. Although the use of the word ‘boyfriend’ made me giggle every time. ‘Socrates’ boyfriend’. What a phrase lol.
Anyway, all that aside, I’m glad I read this, especially for Aristophanes and Agathon’s speeches. My favourite quote about love: “He is gracious and gentle; adored by the wise, admired by the gods; craved when absent, prized when present […] For the whole of heaven and the whole of earth, he is matchless and peerless as governor and guide.”