In this text, a speech by Aristophanes claims that humans used to be double creatures with two heads and bodies, which now eternally seek their opposite halves. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this text, which also includes speeches by Agathon and a dramatic entrance by the drunk Alcibiades. In this text, Socrates describes how he was himself taught by a woman named Diotima.
ANSWER: Symposium [or Sympósion]
[10e] A number of characters deliver speeches praising or defining love in Symposium, one of this philosopher's many dialogues which depict Socrates.
ANSWER: Plato [or Plátōn]
[10h] The philosophical tradition of composing encomia, or praise-speeches, is also seen in this philosopher's Encomium of Helen. This sophist, a native of Leontini in Sicily, is sometimes associated with nihilism due to his lost work On Non-Existence.
ANSWER: Gorgias of Leontini
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