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The Speech of Eryximachus
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Introduction
Eryximachus
- Eryximachus was a doctor (expertise in the field of medicine)
- Opening: how to cure Aristophanes hiccups
- agrees with Pausanias' but elaborates, love is virtually in everything
Love as a Comic Force
- gratifying good and bad body parts relates to love
- The best doctors know how to change good and bad body parts and must have knowledge of love
- warns of self-indulgence: in terms of love and medicine
- Astronomy
- Divination
- Harmony
- Love is omnipresent throughout the universe
Harmony
- ..."Love does not occur only in the human soul; it is not simply that attraction we feel toward human beauty: it is a significantly broader phenomenon. Love is a deity of the greatest importance; he directs everything that occurs, not only in the human domain, but also in that of the gods."
Eryximachus on Love
Love and Music
- Discusses only what love has to offer.
- Two different kinds of love.
- Love in plants and animals.
- Healthy vs Diseased.
- Heraclitus: " being at variance with itself is in agreement with itself" "like the attunement of a bow or a lyre"
- Harmony
- Rhythm
- Eryximachus: "Music, like medicine, creates agreement by producing concord and love between these various opposites. Music is therefore simply the science of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."
Seasons and Cooking
- "Similarly, in my area of expertise, a key part of the job lies in the correct handling of the desires met by the art of cookery, to ensure that people enjoy this pleasure without getting ill." Eryximachus
- elements of 'hot and cold' 'wet and dry'
- 'proper' kind of Love
- harmony = temperate; good harvest, good health
- 'crude and impulsive' Love
- death, destruction; frost, hail, blights
The Speech of Eryximachus
by Valerie Q.
Alexis M.
Veronica H.
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