Symposium
An Army of Committed Love
The Symposium, a post war celebration where each member in attendance gave a speech in praise of love, had a wide variety of not only praises of love, but the actual idea and formation of love and human kind. The idea of love that I am especially interested in is the single idea of love, pure and good, as working to build the best army ever in existence. I believe, and agree with Phaedrus when he says that the best kind of an army would be one made of lovers. This idea I believe is a valid argument because not only would each lover be willing to sacrifice their love for the other in any situation, but they would also want to do nothing to disgrace their lover. However I am going to argue that the best army would not be those of homosexual relations between temporary lovers, but between married couples.
This army which Phaedrus is discussing is one made up of men and boys, or lovers and the boys they love. It was very common for Greek men to have......
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