Colors; Poulakos' affection for Symposium

As the character colors will be listed on the program, don't bother to paint your character's name on the sash. If you've already done so, just flip the sash to the other side. We decided that the base toga color with be white/white-ish.

Colors by character:

Agathon (purple sash): Alex Gluhovsky & Kirsten Sabares-Klemm

Alcibiades (black): Joey Ammendola, Dana Haakensen, & John Hanish

Aristophanes (red): Trevor Burke & Andy Marshall

Eryximachus (blue): Leah Milton & Mike Oas

Flute-girls/Diotima (pink): Juvie Jean-Baptiste, Miranda Kingan, & Carron Mitchell

Pausanias (orange): Jenna Graham & Elysia Korinko

Phaedrus (yellow): Colin Esgro

Servant: Jon Webster

Socrates (sage green): Carey Casile & Kay Oyegun


Summary
(Written by Prof. John Poulakos)

One of Plato’s greatest dialogues, the Symposium is a series of epideictic speeches at a dinner party. The theme of the speeches is eros in all its manifestations, from the lowest to the highest.
Unveiling and interpreting something of the mystery of life, the Symposium combines competitive eloquence, casual talk, satiric wit, and high poetic rapture with unparalleled virtuosity.
The theoretical material in this dialogue in adumbrated for only an exalted moment in convivial talk. Through the glow of Plato’s poetic speculation, we get a glimpse of a whole way of life, not simply a theory. A progress toward perfect enlightenment is commended to all who have opened their eyes wide enough to see that they walk in the shade of ignorance.