My attempt is to demonstrate that this new version of the fight, that has now become a confrontation between the characters of the Symposium, does not constitute anymore a mournful self-defence, even less is it a revenge, but that it is a complex judgement about contents and, namely, about the form of philosophical speech, and it is full of shades, of affinities and differences compared with the speech of the comic poet. Manuela Valle. Relevant evidence on this topic comes from Strabo's report on the Hecatombaea 8. Vera Garcia. Only the rituals of the Eleusinian Mysteries provide a source of joy and a hope of salvation in this brilliant and profoundly bitter play.
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