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A 5 page research paper that, first of all, looks at the various forms of "love" that were acknowledged in Greek culture and in Plato's Symposium. Then, the writer goes on to discuss how these forms are dramatized in modern cinema. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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hear someone declare an undying love as the motivation for a lifetime commitment of marriage, but also to hear someone declare a "love" for pizza, or golf. Obviously, although
the same word is used, it is not describing the same emotion. The ancient Greeks discerned between types of love. The word "eros" was used to describe the emotion generated
by sexual desire and a strong sexual attraction; "agape" was used to describe a more affectionate love, such as the one that God has in the Bible; and "philia" is
the love of friends (Platonic Love). In Platos Symposium, the only love that is mentioned by name is "eros." Nevertheless, Plato recounts a supposed dialogue that focuses on definitions
of love. Phaedrus goes first and asserts that Eros, as the oldest of the deities, bestows the greatest benefits on humanity. To prove his argument, Phaedrus sites how homosexual lovers
make the best soldiers, because they fight bravely so that they wont disgrace themselves in the eyes of t heir lover (Symposium by Plato). It was natural for Phaedrus
to refer to homosexual love, rather then heterosexual, in reference to the wonders of eros. This is because Greek women were given very little education, and lived very secluded lives
within the domestic sphere. Therefore, a Greek man typically took a younger male as his main love interest because only a man could offer him intellectual, as well as physical
stimulation. In other words, Greek felt that a pairing of equals had to be homosexual. In fact, the most celebrated account of
homosexual love is to be found in Platos Symposium in which homosexual love is pictured as the more ideal, more perfect kind of relationship then the more prosaic heterosexual variety
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