Trustees of Boston University The Tragic and Comic Poet of the Symposium Author(s): Diskin Clay Source: Arion, New Series, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1975), pp. 238-261 Published by: Trustees of Boston University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163375 . Accessed: 31/01/2014 12:13 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Trustees of Boston University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Arion. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 141.222.81.135 on Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:13:22 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions THE TRAGIC AND COMIC POET OF THE SYMPOSIUM Diskin Clay For Bernard Knox 1 LATO'S SYMPOSIUM BREAKSUP only at dawn. For some, his celebration of Eros lasts longer than it should. At its end not only have Phaedrus, Eryximachus, and still others escaped into the night, but Plato's commentators have fallen asleep?like all but three or four of those still present in Agathon's banquet room. Ficino composed no Oratio octava to represent or com ment upon Socrates' conversation with Agathon and Aristophanes. As for Louis Le Roi, whose Le Sympose de Platon ( 1558) was the first French translation of the Sym posium and at the same time a sort of marriage manual for the newly married dauphin (pp.