The Tragic and Comic Poet of the Symposium • 🍷
τὸ μέντοι κεφάλαιον, ἔφη, προσαναγκάζειν τὸν Σωκράτη ὁμολογεῖν αὐτοὺς τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀνδρὸς εἶναι κωμῳδίαν καὶ τραγῳδίαν ἐπίστασθαι ποιεῖν, καὶ τὸν τέχνῃ τραγῳδοποιὸν ὄντα κωμῳδοποιὸν εἶναι.
Plato, Symposium 😮
The finale of the Symposium is exceptionally symbolical; especially the only left (awaken) figures at the very end of the feast: Agathon( tragic poet), Aristophanes(comic poet) and Socrates(philosopher) who talk about the necessity for one at the same time to be able to compose tragedy and comedy•
As we can conclude from such a symbolical place,exactly Socrates has such a power since he is right in the middle of such extremums; on the one hand he is a “Silenus, satyr” as Alcibiades calls him in his ἐγκώμιον, and on the other hand he is a tragical figure;
For Ancient thought “tragic” is centered on the high and serious, “comical” on the low and laughable; (also can check out Aristotle’s Poetics on that matter)
φιλόσοφος- тот кто может сочинить как трагедию, так и комедию; совместить в себе как низменное/комическое, так и возвышенное/трагическое •
• an article dedicated to this topic
https://orb.binghamton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1076&context=sagp
