Reading Plato’s Symposium was very interesting. To my understanding of the story, there are two types of love, sexual and spiritual, intellectual. Sexual love is between a man and a woman while two men in love will be more focused on learning about each other and the idea of being the others half and completing each other. “it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of the human nature…. Each of us, then is a ‘matching half’ of a human whole because each was sliced like a flatfish, two out of one, and each of us is always seeking the half that matches him”(page 882)

Some interesting points I noticed. How loving for money is dishonorable and not noble but being with someone who was thought to have good virtue and personality and would help one group even when fooled is still seen as being noble.

The story also talks about cheating being dishonorable different from the Odyssey and other stories we have read which have a lot of affairs occurring.

Overall I really enjoyed the different takes on love this story expresses.