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Some sort of mania (divine madness) took possession of him and he was almost unable to resist it. This entry was posted in Week 4: Platonic Love and tagged socrates. The first step of the ladder is loving the physical beauty of an individual boy This love leads to beautiful discussions and conversations.

In his speech, he introduces a character Diotima, a woman who educates Socrates on the ladder of love. Thus, Socrates shows the benefit of the education in pederastic relationships and how they make the world more beautiful. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published.

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Greek Homosexuality Livius: Socrates was determined to keep his relationship with Alcibiades (and any other young man), entirely on an intellectual level

Considerable controversy has engaged the scholarly world concerning the nature of same-sex relationships among the ancient Greeks described by Thomas Hubbard in the Introduction to Homosexuality in Greece and Rome, A Source Book of Basic Documents,p.

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. The generation of knowledge allows one to climb to the next step of the ladder, seeing the beauty in different types of knowledge, which inspires finer thoughts and arguments.

With the physical and intellectual aspects of pederasty being represented in a theory about appreciating beauty, it validates the argument that pederasty is one of the highest forms of education a young boy can receive. The last step of the ladder is beholding the ultimate and true beauty, the closest thing to immortality any mortal can achieve The theory of the ladder incorporates the love for both physical features and intellectual stimulation, the two main purposes of pederastic relationships.

Gay sex, therefore, is a metaphor for sexual relations with women.

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He has painted a very remarkable picture of his teacher Socrates, who is shown - in Plato's own words - as boy crazy. Bookmark the permalink. Your email address will not be published. The answer is the philosophy of the Athenian Plato.

The next step is to then recognize all physical beauty After being able to do this, the next stage of the ladder is to have a greater love for mental beauty than physical beauty After a love for mental beauty takes priority, discussions that improve the minds of the young can be produced.

That's not great and it's gay not flattering, but even if it's not the complete picture it's a way for people who devalue homoerotic desire on its own terms and devalue women to talk about Plato without having to contend with contradiction and it has plenty of adherents even now.

Same-Sex Desire: Then and Now. Proudly powered by WordPress. Those who are higher up on the ladder are able to achieve a kind of beauty close to immortality. The ladder of love shows the different levels in which people contemplate beauty. Recent Comments Tags adultmalecitizens Aeschines always ancient greece Athens Boswell competition conversiontherapy Eros First-Year Seminar flashback gay gayhistory gender gender expression gender roles Gettysburg greece Halperin immortality lesbian Lesbians men menandwomen nominalist Nuns pederasty queer raising realist renaissance Rent musical rome same-sex desire Sappho sexuality socrates Sparta suetonius Symonds teaching Theognis transvestite two-spirit women.

When Socrates was in the company of beautiful boys, he socrates his senses.