Status Updates From O Banquete

In the words of another reviewer - the gayest book I've ever read! I'm just continuously delighted whenever I turn the page and read about something new. Wondrously egalitarian in SO many ways but also, inherently misogynistic, but that I fear is simply a product of its time. Happy to pick this up again and will hopefully be finishing this in a pinch

If someone starts the dinner conversation by citing Euripides, I'm leaving

I love this book…

“anyone whom Love touches becomes a poet, ‘although a stranger to the Muse before’. We should accept this as evidence that, broadly speaking, Love excels in every kind of artistic creation; how can anyone impart or teach to another an art which he does not possess or does not know?”