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According Aeschylus Agathon Alcibiades already altogether Aristodemus Aristophanes Athenian attempt beauty become begins beloved body called character complete concerned connection consequence cosmic cosmos daimonic depends desire dialectic dialogue difference Diotima discussion distinction divine Eros erotic Eryximachus example existence fact follows force genesis give gods happiness harmony honor human hybris Ideas important interpretation irony justice kind knowledge Laws leads least logos lover means medicine mention mind nature necessary noble Olympian passage Pausanias pederasty perhaps Phaedrus philosophy physical Plato poet poetry political position possession possible practical praise present principle problem psyche question reason reference regard replaced Republic respect result rhetoric seems selfishness sense sexual shows simply Socrates soft Sophist speak speech suggest Symposium takes teaching technē things thought tion true truth turn ugly understand virtue visible whereas whole wisdom wishes young Zeus