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Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Readings and Notes

Reading 1 The Frame

Reading 1A

Reading 1B

Reading 2 The Drinking Party

Reading 2A

Reading 2B

Reading 2C

Reading 3 The Speech of Phaedrus

Reading 3A

Reading 3B

Reading 4 Pausanias's Purified Pederasty

Reading 4A

Reading 4B

Reading 5 Scientific and Medical Conceptions of Love: The Speech of the Doctor Eryximachus

Reading 5A

Reading 5B

Reading 6 Aristophanes' Comic Myth

Reading 6A

Reading 6B

Reading 6C

Reading 6D

Reading 6E

Reading 7 A Tragic Oration

Reading 7A

Reading 7B

Reading 7C

Reading 7D

Reading 8 Plain-Speaking: Socrates Responds

Reading 8A

Reading 8B

Reading 9 A Woman Speaks: Diotima's Erotic Wisdom

Reading 9A

Reading 9B

Reading 9C

Reading 9D

Reading 9E

Reading 9F

Reading 9G

Reading 9H

Reading 9I

Reading 9J

Reading 10 Socrates as Satyr: Alcibiades' Drunken Satyr-Play

Reading 10A

Reading 10B

Reading 10C

Reading 10D

Reading 10E

Reading 10F

Reading 10G

Reading 10H

Reading 11 The End of the Symposium

pt. 2 Review Exercises

Review Exercise 1A

a. Indirect statement with infinitive

b. Participle forms

c. Circumstantial, supplementary, and substantival participles

d. Verb drills: μενω, πυνθανμαι and αΧυω

Review Exercise 1B

a. Genitive absolute

b. Relative clauses

c. Challenge passages

Review Exercise 2A

a. Common independent uses of the subjunctive: hortatory, prohibitive, deliberative

b. Common dependent uses of the subjunctive: αν in generalizing or indefinite clauses, in purpose clauses, in fear (for the future) clauses

c. Verb drills: λεγω and αγ ω

d. Sight-reading: an edifying tale from Aesop

E. Challenge passages

Review Exercise 2B

a. Sight-reading: ancient quotations on wine, water, and drinking

b. Optative replacing subjunctive in secondary sequence: purpose clauses, fear clauses, generalizations about the past

c. Optative in indirect statements and questions in secondary sequence

d. Independent uses of the optative: wishes, potential optative

e. Verb drills: πνω and εΣθιω

Review Exercise 2C

a. Indicative + αν

b. Subjunctive + αν

c. Optative + αν

d. Challenge passages: mixed constructions

e. Verb drills: αω, αιεω, and εΧμαι

Review Exercise 3

a. Common uses of the accusative, especially accusatives of respect

b. Common uses of the genitive

c. Challenge passages

Review Exercise 4

a. Common uses of the dative

B. Result clauses

c. Uses of the infinitive

d. Challenge passages

Review Exercise 5

a. Uses of ωσ

b. Verbal adjectives in τεσ

c. Challenge passages

d. Verb drills: πιπτω and φεω

Review Exercise 6

a. Accusative absolute

b. Fear clauses: subjunctive and optative (fears for the future)

c. Numbers

d. Challenge passage

Appendixes

1. Major Characters in the Symposium

2. Time Line of Events Relevant to the Symposium

3. Seating Arrangement at Agathon's Symposium

4. Structure of the Symposium.