In this episode, I cover The Birth of Love myth in Plato’s Symposium dialogue. I don’t usually think of Plato as a myth maker, but here he is offering a different spin on the birth of Eros to show how love’s parentage shows our need for Beauty. The ladder of love leads to Plato’s heavenly form of Beauty in a wonderful way. I talk about this myth, Plato’s use of myth, and myth in general in the art of persuasion.
Books / Articles Referenced:
Plato: Selected Myths / Translation by Catalin Partenie / Oxford World’s Classics
Hesiod: Theogony / Translation by M.L. West / Oxford World’s Classics
Plotinus: The Enneads on Love / Translation by Stephen Mackenna / Penguin Classics
From Plato to Christ / Louis Markos
God in the Dock: Myth Became Fact / CS. Lewis
Better Than Sex! / Deacon Harrison Garlick
