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Apparently Alcibiades mentioned snakebite (a reference to Philoctetes) in Plato's Symposium. I don't remember that, but I was hoping to find hints of the Symposium in the Decameron (well, Symposium without the wine), because it feels like very similar in form and content.
— Jul 14, 2021 04:49PM
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The Elegy opens with a snake bite foreshadowing seduction (more like madness, like Apollo losing his mind after getting shot by Cupid) ...
Which makes me wonder if "A" in Kierkegaard's Either/Or seducer was alluding to Boccaccio ... or maybe snakebite is a well established symbol for seduction.
— Jul 14, 2021 04:43PM
Which makes me wonder if "A" in Kierkegaard's Either/Or seducer was alluding to Boccaccio ... or maybe snakebite is a well established symbol for seduction.
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Jul 15, 2021 05:31AM
Yep, Alcibiades compares philosophy to a snake that sinks its fangs into young souls and makes them do crazy things.
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Rex wrote: "Yep, Alcibiades compares philosophy to a snake that sinks its fangs into young souls and makes them do crazy things."So Socrates was factually guilty of corrupting the youths, QED!
Which makes me wonder if Boccaccio’s Fiammetta Elegy is depicting some kind of initiation into philosophy as well…
