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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