Diotima and kuèsis in the light of the myths of the god’s annexation of pregnancy (Symposium 201d-212b)
Reported by a male, one of Diotima’s thesis seems rather surprising: men’ desire is to become pregnant. Scholars have pretended that kuèsis applied to males must be interpreted in a metaphorical sense, but this prohibits understanding why Diotima chooses this metaphor rather than another. In the li...
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Coimbra University Press
2015-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/platojournal/article/view/2136 |