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notes on socratic love
Dec. 2nd, 2005 05:08 pm Can we regard Socrates and Alcibiades as erastes and eromenos?
Starting in his adolescence, Alcibiades was a student, and a follower, of Socrates. Both of them used erotic language in speaking to, and of, each other. Is it reasonable to identify their relationship as paederastic? ( Read more... )
Starting in his adolescence, Alcibiades was a student, and a follower, of Socrates. Both of them used erotic language in speaking to, and of, each other. Is it reasonable to identify their relationship as paederastic? ( Read more... )
