aristophanes in A Sentence

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    What does Aristophanes' speech have to do with love?

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    It is no mistake that Plato gives Aristophanes the most outlandish of speeches.

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    Aristophanes says his speech explains“the source of our desire to love each other.”.

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    The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote about them in two of his plays.

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    On one hand, of course, Aristophanes means something quite literal: the wound perpetrated by Zeus.

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    So goes Aristophanes' contribution to the Symposium, where Plato's characters take turns composing speeches about love- interspersed with heavy drinking.

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    As a philosopher, I am always amazed how Plato's account here, uttered by Aristophanes, uncannily evokes our very modern view of love.

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    Plato quotes the poet Aristophanes as saying that all humans were once united with their other half, but Zeus split them apart out of fear and jealousy.

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    At the time the featured politician was at the height of his popularity, yet Athenian tolerance even in wartime allowed Aristophanes first prize in the competition for comedies.

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    Aristophanes claimed to be writing for a clever and discerning audience, yet he also declared that'other times' would judge the audience according to its reception of his plays.

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    Aristophanes tells the story of once-whole creatures who, because of their pride, were cut in two, creating human beings, who now wander the Earth seeking completion in their other half.

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    In the matter of plot construction, Aristophanes' comedies are often loosely put together, are full of strangely inconsequential episodes, and often degenerate at their end into a series of disconnected and boisterous episodes.

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    Among references in other writers, Aristophanes, in his comedy The Wasps, represented the protagonist Philocleon as having learnt the"absurdities" of Aesop from conversation at banquets; Plato wrote in Phaedo that Socrates whiled away his time in prison turning some of Aesop's fables"which he knew" into verses.

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