Question

According to Iamblichus, a dialogue named for this person is the best place to start reading Plato. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this person who names two Platonic dialogues. After interrupting Socrates’ discussion of Diotima’s teachings in another dialogue, this person delivers a speech comparing Socrates to a statue of Silenus.
ANSWER: Alcibiades [accept First Alcibiades or Alcibiades Major or Alcibiades I; accept Second Alcibiades or Alcibiades Minor or Alcibiades II]
[10e] Alcibiades’ drunken speech occurs during a discussion on the nature of love in this Platonic dialogue set during a drinking party.
ANSWER: Symposium
[10h] In First Alcibiades, Socrates replaces this maxim’s first word with “see” when advising Alcibiades on how to perform it. Diogenes Laërtius’ (“lay-er-tea-us’s”) Lives attributes the first usage of this maxim to Thales.
ANSWER: know thyself” [or “know yourself” or “gnōthi sauton”]
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2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y215.00100%50%0%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y412.50100%25%0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y812.5075%38%13%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y210.00100%0%0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y417.50100%50%25%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y313.3367%33%33%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest10/12/2024Y412.50100%0%25%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y25.0050%0%0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y516.00100%40%20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y313.33100%0%33%

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Berkeley ABerkeley B1010020
Berkeley CStanford010010
Michigan ACarnegie Mellon010010
PittsburghMichigan B1010020
Ohio State AOhio State B010010
Ohio State CMichigan State010010
WUSTLIllinois B10101030
Indiana BNotre Dame A0000
Illinois AMinnesota1010020
Northwestern AIndiana A010010
Notre Dame BChicago A1010020
Notre Dame CChicago B010010
PurdueNorthwestern B010010
Illinois CSIUE0000
UF AUF C010010
UF BUCF010010
Yale AHarvard B1010020
Harvard AMIT10101030
BrandeisTufts010010
BUYale B010010
JHU AColumbia1010020
MarylandJHU B001010
PrincetonNYU A010010
TAMUHouston0000
Texas ATexas B010010
Four Times I Have Despised My Soul3HK1MM1010020
Limp ChriskitLSE010010
Oxford School for QuiznessSorted010010
The Crying of Team 49Say it010010
Gressenheller ASee it10101030
We joppingOh you like geography? Name every Forrest.010010
Statler and Waldorfesque Former Penn Bowl EditorsKhalil v Carbolic Shisha Ball Co010010
TOADWhy the Kremlin Hates Bananas010010
Ill-Advised Buzzbruh0101020
UNC BUNC A010010
Virginia Tech ADuke A010010
RIT AUNC C0101020