batch.motif.greek-plato-symposium-jowett-gutenberg-l1493-l1543
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-plato-symposium-jowett-gutenberg-l1493-l1543
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
passage_locator:
label: Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 1493-1543
start: '1493'
end: '1543'
translation: Symposium
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: 'Pausanias concludes that love is honorable when lover and beloved unite
erotic attachment with the pursuit of wisdom, virtue, education, and mutual improvement;
he distinguishes this heavenly love from other loves associated with the common
goddess. The narrative then shifts turns among the speakers: Aristophanes has
hiccoughs, exchanges speaking turns with Eryximachus, and receives practical remedies
including holding the breath, gargling water, and inducing sneezing.'
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A custom is described in which voluntary service to another for improvement
in wisdom or virtue is not considered dishonorable or flattery.
category: other
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: 'Two customs are said to meet: love of youth and the practice of philosophy
and virtue.'
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: The lover is described as capable of communicating wisdom and virtue, while
the beloved seeks to acquire them for education and wisdom.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Yielding to a lover is presented as honorable only when the two laws of love
meet in the pursuit of wisdom and virtue.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: A person who accepts a lover for money is described as disgraced, whether
or not the expected gain is realized.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: A person who accepts a lover as a good man in hope of improvement is described
as virtuous even if deceived.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The passage names this virtuous form as love of the heavenly goddess and contrasts
other loves as offspring of the common goddess.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: Pausanias ends his contribution in praise of love addressed to Phaedrus.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:9
text: Aristodemus reports that Aristophanes was next to speak but had hiccoughs
and exchanged turns with Eryximachus the physician.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:10
text: 'Eryximachus agrees to speak in Aristophanes’ turn and recommends remedies
for the hiccough: holding the breath, gargling water, tickling the nose, and sneezing.'
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Pausanias
description: Speaker who concludes an extempore contribution in praise of love.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Phaedrus
description: Addressee to whom Pausanias offers his contribution in praise of love.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: lover
description: A person described as doing service to the beloved and as capable of
communicating wisdom and virtue in the honorable form of love.
role_refs:
- role:3
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: beloved
description: A person described as yielding honorably when seeking education, wisdom,
virtue, and improvement from the lover.
role_refs:
- role:4
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: heavenly goddess
description: Goddess associated with the heavenly love of great price to individuals
and cities.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: common goddess
description: Goddess associated with all other loves as their offspring.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Aristodemus
description: Reporter who says Aristophanes was next but had hiccoughs and changed
turns with Eryximachus.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Aristophanes
description: Next intended speaker who has hiccoughs and asks Eryximachus to stop
them or speak in his turn.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Eryximachus
description: Physician reclining below Aristophanes who agrees to speak in his turn
and prescribe remedies for the hiccough.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
roles:
- id: role:1
label: speaker in praise of love
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Pausanias offers his contribution in praise of love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:2
label: addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Pausanias addresses his contribution to Phaedrus.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: role:3
label: communicator of wisdom and virtue
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The lover is described as capable of communicating wisdom and virtue.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: seeker of education and wisdom
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The beloved is described as seeking to acquire wisdom and virtue with a view
to education and wisdom.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:5
label: participant in honorable love
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: The lover and beloved fulfill and unite the two laws of love for virtue and
improvement.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: divine source associated with heavenly love
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: This love is called the love of the heavenly goddess and heavenly.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:7
label: divine source associated with other loves
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: All other loves are called offspring of the common goddess.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:8
label: narrative reporter
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: Aristodemus is said to report the order of speakers and the interruption
caused by hiccoughs.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:9
label: interrupted speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Aristophanes was next but had hiccoughs and changed turns.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:10
label: physician and substitute speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Eryximachus is called the physician and agrees to speak in Aristophanes’
turn while prescribing remedies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wisdom
literal_form: wisdom
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:6
- id: sym:2
label: virtue
literal_form: virtue
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: sym:3
label: heavenly goddess
literal_form: heavenly goddess
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:4
label: common goddess
literal_form: common goddess
associated_figures:
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:5
label: water
literal_form: a little water used for gargling
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Pausanias defines honorable love
summary: Pausanias describes honorable love as the meeting of love of youth with
philosophy and virtue, so that lover and beloved pursue wisdom, education, virtue,
and improvement rather than money or base gain.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:2
label: Turn exchange after Aristophanes’ hiccoughs
summary: After Pausanias pauses, Aristodemus reports that Aristophanes is unable
to take his speaking turn because of hiccoughs and exchanges turns with Eryximachus,
who gives medical advice while preparing to speak.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: love as mutual pursuit of wisdom and virtue
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
- sacred_exchange
basis: The lover provides wisdom and virtue while the beloved seeks education and
improvement; the exchange is honorable when directed toward virtue rather than
gain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage is philosophical discourse rather than mythic narrative; taxonomy
mapping to sacred_exchange is interpretive and should be reviewed.
- id: motif:2
label: dual forms of love from two goddesses
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
- divine_beloved
basis: The passage contrasts heavenly love associated with a heavenly goddess and
other loves as offspring of a common goddess.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The goddesses are invoked as part of Pausanias’ argument; the passage
does not narrate a myth involving them.
- id: motif:3
label: ritualized order of speech interrupted by bodily ailment
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: The symposium speaking order is altered when Aristophanes’ hiccoughs require
Eryximachus to speak in his turn and prescribe remedies.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
confidence: low
cautions: This is a narrative-social pattern, not clearly a comparative mythology
motif.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 1493-1497
quote_or_summary: Voluntary service to another for improvement in wisdom or virtue
is not dishonorable or flattery.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 1497-1500
quote_or_summary: The customs of love of youth and philosophy/virtue are said to
meet, allowing the beloved to indulge the lover honorably.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 1500-1508
quote_or_summary: The lover serves the beloved; the beloved shows kindness to one
making him wise and good; one communicates wisdom and virtue while the other seeks
them for education and wisdom.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 1510-1516
quote_or_summary: Accepting a lover for expected wealth is described as disgraceful
if the lover turns out poor, because the motive was money and base use.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 1516-1525
quote_or_summary: Accepting a lover believed to be good, in hope of moral improvement,
is described as virtuous even if the lover proves villainous; the error is called
noble.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 1525-1531
quote_or_summary: Acceptance for the sake of virtue is noble; this love is called
heavenly, of the heavenly goddess, and valuable to individuals and cities; other
loves are offspring of the common goddess.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 1531-1533
quote_or_summary: Pausanias offers Phaedrus his extempore contribution in praise
of love.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 1534-1540
quote_or_summary: Pausanias pauses; Aristodemus says Aristophanes was next, but
hiccoughs forced him to change turns with Eryximachus the physician reclining
below him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: 1540-1543
quote_or_summary: Eryximachus agrees to speak in Aristophanes’ turn and advises
holding the breath, gargling with water, tickling the nose, and sneezing to cure
the hiccough.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain translation; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Extraction is based directly on the supplied public-domain passage. Motif
candidates are cautious because much of the passage is philosophical argument
and symposium narration rather than mythic narrative. No comparison claims are
made because the passage itself does not support cross-textual comparison.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
Used only supplied passage and metadata; maintained empty comparison_claims because no comparison is explicitly supported within the passage.
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