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By Adrienne Hudspeth - November 13, 2002

The Structure of Plato's Symposium Plato's Psychology - The Tripartite Soul Love and the Importance of the Speeches Pederasty Without Sexual Relations The Impossibility of Evil Without Ignorance and... "Pregnant in Body and in Mind": Reproduction and... Love in the Passions The Search For Truth In Love And Beauty

Modern critics are quick to assert that Socrates failed in his role as a teacher to Alcibiades by refusing to engage in sexual relations. Upon closer investigation of both the traditional form and Socrates' own revised form of pederasty, the reasoning behind the lack of sexual activity is gleaned. In classical Athens, the traditional, established…

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