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- Title
EL JARDÍN DE ZEUS: LA PÍTICA 9 DE PÍNDARO Y EL DISCURSO DE DIOTIMA EN EL BANQUETE DE PLATÓN.
- Authors
FLÓREZ, ALFONSO
- Abstract
The research is part of a movement that seeks to highlight the relevance of poetic texts for the understanding of Plato's dialogues. In this case, the starting point is the community of the expression 'the garden of Zeus' in Pindar's Pythian 9 and in Diotima's Speech in the Symposium. First, a thematic outline of the two texts is presented. Then, a three-stage tour is offered: the passage from desire to mediation, the study of the figure of the mediator, and the opening of mediation to the metapoetic realm and what follows from it. The first stage shows how Eros leads to immortality through generation, which is guided by virtue in its most noble condition, when the city is instituted, while in the dialogue between Apollo, in love with Cyrene, and Chiron, the same steps of an erotic drive leading to the civic are identified. In the second stage, the mediating task of Chiron before Apollo, similar to the relationship of Diotima with Socrates, is highlighted; this mediation of Chiron produces a new realm, which bears his mark, so it is understood that the mediation of Diotima has generated the erotic philosopher Socrates, also now a mediator. The third stage shows how the sage overcomes the difference between divine and human time through metapoetic creation, whose poetic and philosophical consummation is the constitution of the beautiful city.
- Subjects
PLATO, 428-347 B.C.; ANCIENT philosophy; PYTHIAN 9 (Poem); PINDAR, 522 B.C.-443 B.C.; DIOTIMA (Legendary character)
- Publication
Universitas Philosophica, 2021, Vol 38, Issue 77, p233
- ISSN
0120-5323
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11144/Javeriana.uph38-77.jzpp