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Contents: ParmenidesPhilebusSymposiumPhaedrus |
Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
Symposium: Apollodorus
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[189e] not merely the two sexes, male and female, as at present: there was a third kind as well, which had equal shares of the other two, and whose name survives though, the thing itself has vanished. For ‘man-woman’1 was then a unity in form no less than name, composed of both sexes and sharing equally in male and female; whereas now it has come to be merely a name of reproach. Secondly, the form of each person was round all over, with back and sides encompassing it every way; each had four arms, and legs to match these, and two faces perfectly alike
1 i.e. “hermaphrodite”; cf. Lucret. v. 837ff.
There are a total of 3 comments on and cross references to this page.
Further comments from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
section 189e: androgunon
section 189e: nun de
section 189e: holon ên
Cross references from R. G. Bury, The Symposium of Plato:
* [§ iii. The First Five Speeches.]
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This text is based on the following book(s): Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. OCLC: 20083931, 19433521, 377367, 21777623 ISBN: 0674990404, 0674991842, 0674991850, 0674991826
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