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Notes

1. ^ Cobb, p. 11.
2. ^ References to the text of the Symposium are given in Stephanus pagination, the standard reference system for Plato. This numbering system will be found in the margin of nearly all editions and translations.
3. ^ Rebecca Stanton notes a deliberate blurring of genre boundaries here ("Aristophanes gives a tragic speech, Agathon a comic/parodic one") and that Socrates later urges a similar coalescence:[1].
4. ^ (Dalby 2006).
5. ^ He ignores the alternative view, already widespread, that Eros was the child of Aphrodite. Thus, throughout, Phaedrus selects versions and interpretations of myth to suit his argument.
6. ^ ^{a b} Translation by W. Hamilton.
7. ^ Yet the Iliad says that they were about the same age (Iliad 23.102) and it is evident that both had been fighting at Troy for ten years by this time. No one objects to Phaedrus's wild claim.
8. ^ Republic 3.388e. Socrates would also forbid actors to imitate drunks who revile and lampoon each other (Republic 3.396).
9. ^ Satyrs were often portrayed with the sexual appetite, manners, and features of wild beasts, and often with a large erection.
10. ^ Cited by Pausanias for the assertion that Achilles was Patroclus's older lover.
11. ^ Perhaps (see note above).