Artistic Theme

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Term Paper Title	Artistic Theme
# of Words	470
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.88

Artistic Theme
My artistic theme is about the play “The Bacchae of Euripides” and how the god Dionysusis irrational behavior is in accord with that of Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium.  In both books the above named character’s behavior was reactive to their situations rather than proactive.
In the Symposium, Alcibiade’s unrequited love, or rather lust for Socrates drives him to make a fool of himself at the “dinner party”.  During his speech Alcibiades speaks of Socrates as if he were a superior being; he has a special hold or power over emotions of others.  He mentions that “(Socrates) presents himself as your lover, and before you know it, you’re in love with him yourself!  Therefore, justifying to himself that he is not in control of his body or emotions.  This is in direct contrast to the character of Socrates presented by Plato.  Socrates believes in self-control-being in control of what you do what ails you and what you allow to bother you.  In conjunction with this is the concept of love.
According to Socrates lust or sexual desire is on of the lowest forms of love; thus does always need to be obtained.  Rather wisdom, the highest form of love according to Diotima and Socrates should be sought and revered.  The concept of honoring life and love as it is, exemplified in the Handbook of Epictetus.  In...

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