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A 5 page paper which examines instances of divine justice
from Plato’s Symposium and Ovid’s Metamorphoses. No additional sources cited.
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the power of the gods. There are illustrations of ethics and the righteous actions of men, presumably presented in order to teach the reader of the time how to live
more nobly and more consciously than others. In many ways it seems that many of these ancient texts were trying to raise the position of mankind above the animalistic tendencies.
Platos Symposium and Ovids Metamorphoses are two such works. The following paper examines Platos Symposium as it involves Aristophanes myth about the origins of human love and sexuality and Ovids
Metamorphoses as it involves the myth of the Four Ages. In the discussion of the works the focus in on the use of divine intervention and justice. Aristophanes
In Aristophanes speech, in Book I of Platos Symposium, he tells the listeners, "In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to
it; for the original human nature was not like the present, but different. [189e] The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was
man, woman, and the union of the two, having a name corresponding to this double nature, which had once a real existence, but is now lost, and the word Androgynous
is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round with many limbs and capable of
many things. "Terrible was their might and strength, and the thoughts of their hearts were great, and they made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale
of [190c] Otys and Ephialtes who, as Homer says, dared to scale heaven, and would have laid hands upon the gods" (Plato). In this we see how the humans
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