Thank you. In fact the magic of the classics is that they don't remain the same, but something new seems to emerge for readers every time they are read! My own curiosity about the meaning of the name Diotima in Symposium, and the claim that she 'postponed the Plague by 10 years', never arose for me or evidently anyone else until I examined it more closely in 2018-19 - with, I hope you agree, spectacular results.
Thank you. In fact the magic of the classics is that they don't remain the same, but something new seems to emerge for readers every time they are read! My own curiosity about the meaning of the name Diotima in Symposium, and the claim that she 'postponed the Plague by 10 years', never arose for me or evidently anyone else until I examined it more closely in 2018-19 - with, I hope you agree, spectacular results.