batch.motif.greek-plato-symposium-jowett-gutenberg-l150-l231
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record_id: batch.motif.greek-plato-symposium-jowett-gutenberg-l150-l231
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passage_locator:
label: Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION.; lines 150-231
start: '150'
end: '231'
translation: Symposium
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage summarizes Pausanias' distinction between heavenly and earthly
love, his account of honorable and disgraceful forms of love, and Eryximachus'
extension of double love into medicine, music, seasons, astronomy, divination,
and relations between gods and humans. It also narrates Aristophanes' hiccough
and Eryximachus' temporary substitution as speaker.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Pausanias says Phaedrus should have distinguished heavenly love from earthly
love before praising love.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The passage states that there are two loves corresponding to two Aphrodites,
one daughter of Uranus and another daughter of Zeus and Dione.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: The first love is described as noble, intelligent, faithful, and without wantonness
or lust; the second is described as coarser and more bodily.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:4
text: The passage reports different social judgments about male loves among Boeotians,
Ionians, barbarians, Athenians, and Spartans.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:5
text: Some loves are described as disgraceful and others as honourable; vulgar bodily
love and interested love of power or wealth are called disgraceful, while love
of a noble mind is lasting.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:6
text: Pausanias says the lover should be tested and the beloved should not yield
too readily.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:7
text: A voluntary service rendered for virtue and wisdom is said to be permitted,
and the meeting of love of youth with virtue and philosophy is said to allow lawful
union.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:8
text: Love of the heavenly goddess is said to help individuals and cities work together
for improvement.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:9
text: Aristophanes is due to speak but has the hiccough, so he proposes that Eryximachus
cure him or speak in his place.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:10
text: Eryximachus agrees with the claim that there are two kinds of love and extends
this double love to animals, plants, and the human body.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:11
text: Medicine is described as identifying good and bad love in the body, persuading
the body to accept the good and reject the bad, and reconciling conflicting elements.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:12
text: Gymnastic, husbandry, medicine, and music are described in relation to reconciliation,
harmony, rhythm, and opposition.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:13
text: The passage invokes Heracleitus in connection with a harmony of opposites,
while qualifying the phrase as harmony succeeding opposites.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:14
text: The passage repeats an old tale involving fair Urania and coarse Polyhymnia
in the context of education, song, metre, and disciplined indulgence.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:15
text: The course of seasons and pairs such as moist and dry, hot and cold, hoar
frost and blight are described as having harmony or disagreement.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:16
text: Astronomy and divination are described as forms of knowledge concerning love
and discord, with divination acting as peacemaker between gods and humans.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:17
text: Just and temperate love is described as powerful and as a source of happiness
and friendship with gods and with one another.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Pausanias
description: Speaker who takes up the tale after Phaedrus and distinguishes heavenly
and earthly love.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Phaedrus
description: Earlier speaker whose praise of love Pausanias says should have distinguished
heavenly from earthly love.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Heavenly Aphrodite
description: Aphrodite described as daughter of Uranus, without a mother, elder,
and wiser.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Popular/common Aphrodite
description: Aphrodite described as daughter of Zeus and Dione, popular and common.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Uranus
description: Named as father of the elder, motherless Aphrodite.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Zeus
description: Named as father of the popular and common Aphrodite.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: Dione
description: Named as mother of the popular and common Aphrodite.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Harmodius and Aristogeiton
description: Pair cited as an instance connected with political dangers arising
from male loves.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Jove
description: Deity mentioned in the proverb that Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: Aristophanes
description: Next intended speaker who has the hiccough and later is said to be
cured.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Eryximachus
description: Physician who is asked to cure Aristophanes or speak in his turn, and
who gives a speech extending double love across arts and nature.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Heracleitus
description: Authority cited in connection with the saying about harmony of opposites.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:13
name_or_label: Urania
description: Figure in the old tale described as fair Urania.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:14
name_or_label: Polyhymnia
description: Figure in the old tale described as coarse Polyhymnia.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
roles:
- id: role:1
label: symposium speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
- fig:11
basis: Pausanias takes up the tale; Eryximachus speaks in his turn.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:2
label: previous speaker addressed by critique
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: Pausanias says Phaedrus should have made a distinction before praising love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: divine counterpart of a type of love
assigned_to:
- fig:3
- fig:4
basis: The two loves are correlated with two Aphrodites, one heavenly/elder/wiser
and one popular/common.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: divine genealogical parent
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
basis: Uranus, Zeus, and Dione are named in the genealogies of the two Aphrodites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: historical example of political danger
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Harmodius and Aristogeiton are cited as an instance related to political
dangers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: proverbial divine witness
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: Jove is named in a proverb about lovers' perjuries.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:7
label: interrupted next speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: Aristophanes' turn comes next, but he has the hiccough.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:8
- id: role:8
label: physician and corrective speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Eryximachus is called a physician, prescribes for the hiccough, and speaks.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:9
label: cited authority on harmony
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Heracleitus is named in connection with the phrase harmony of opposites.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: figures in an old contrastive tale
assigned_to:
- fig:13
- fig:14
basis: The passage refers to the old tale of fair Urania and coarse Polyhymnia.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: two loves
literal_form: A pair of loves, heavenly and earthly/common, correlated with two
Aphrodites.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: two Aphrodites
literal_form: An elder, wiser, motherless Aphrodite from Uranus and a popular/common
Aphrodite from Zeus and Dione.
associated_figures:
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: tested lover and cautious beloved
literal_form: The lover is to be tested, and the beloved is not to yield too readily.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: harmony of opposites
literal_form: Conflicting elements are reconciled and made friends; harmony is said
to succeed opposites.
associated_figures:
- fig:11
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: fair Urania and coarse Polyhymnia
literal_form: A contrastive pair from an old tale, one called fair and the other
coarse.
associated_figures:
- fig:13
- fig:14
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:6
label: seasonal and elemental pairs
literal_form: Moist and dry, hot and cold, hoar frost and blight in the course of
the seasons.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
- seasonal_cycle
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: divination as peacemaker
literal_form: Divination is described as the peacemaker of gods and humans.
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Pausanias distinguishes heavenly and earthly love
summary: Pausanias responds to Phaedrus by dividing love into two types associated
with two Aphrodites, then explains honorable and disgraceful forms of love in
social and ethical terms.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: Aristophanes' hiccough delays his speech
summary: Aristophanes is next to speak but has the hiccough, so he asks Eryximachus
either to cure him or speak in his place.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
- fig:11
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Eryximachus extends double love to arts, body, and cosmos
summary: Eryximachus, speaking as physician, applies the two kinds of love to bodies,
medicine, music, seasons, astronomy, divination, and relations between gods and
humans.
figure_refs:
- fig:10
- fig:11
- fig:12
- fig:13
- fig:14
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: dual love divided into higher and lower forms
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: 'The passage repeatedly distinguishes two loves: heavenly and earthly, noble
and coarse, good and bad.'
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: This is presented as philosophical classification in a dialogue summary,
not as a narrative myth episode.
- id: motif:2
label: divine doublet grounding ethical distinction
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: The two loves are explicitly linked to two Aphrodites with different genealogies
and qualities.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: The passage summarizes divine genealogy only briefly and does not narrate
actions by the goddesses.
- id: motif:3
label: love ordered toward virtue and wisdom
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Voluntary service for virtue and wisdom is permitted, and noble love is praised
as love for the sake of virtue.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy link to wisdom is thematic; the passage is ethical and philosophical
rather than a wisdom quest narrative.
- id: motif:4
label: reconciliation of opposites through love
taxonomy_refs:
- duality
basis: Medicine, arts, music, and bodily processes are described as reconciling
conflicting elements and producing harmony after opposition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The reconciliation is described abstractly and analogically.
- id: motif:5
label: seasonal harmony and disorder
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
- duality
basis: The passage applies harmony and disagreement to seasons and paired qualities
such as moist/dry and hot/cold, with disease arising from disorder.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: Seasonal material appears as part of Eryximachus' philosophical analogy,
not as a standalone seasonal myth.
- id: motif:6
label: mediation between gods and humans
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Divination is called the peacemaker of gods and humans and is tied to knowledge
of human loves tending to piety or impiety.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: No available taxonomy reference directly matches divinatory mediation
in this passage.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage explicitly aligns Eryximachus' account of love with Heracleitus'
language of harmony and opposition, while correcting the phrasing to harmony succeeding
opposites.
claim_level: same_function
target: Heracleitus' harmony of opposites
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: The passage provides only a brief summary and does not quote or contextualize
Heracleitus independently.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage uses the contrast of fair Urania and coarse Polyhymnia as an
analogy for disciplined versus excessive forms in education, song, and metre.
claim_level: same_function
target: old tale of Urania and Polyhymnia
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The old tale is only alluded to; its fuller narrative is not supplied
in the passage.
- id: claim:3
claim: Eryximachus treats medicine, music, husbandry, gymnastic, astronomy, and
divination as analogous domains in which love and discord must be understood or
reconciled.
claim_level: same_function
target: cross-domain reconciliation of opposed elements
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: high
limitations: This is an internal analogy within the passage, not evidence of historical
contact or common inheritance.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: lines 150-158
quote_or_summary: Pausanias says Phaedrus should distinguish heavenly and earthly
love; he identifies two Aphrodites and contrasts their associated loves.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: lines 159-173
quote_or_summary: The passage discusses differing civic views of male loves, mentions
Harmodius and Aristogeiton and Jove's laughter at lovers' perjuries, and distinguishes
disgraceful from honourable loves.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: lines 174-183
quote_or_summary: A voluntary service for virtue and wisdom is allowed; noble love
remains noble even if deceived, and heavenly love helps individuals and cities
improve.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: lines 184-190
quote_or_summary: Aristophanes has the hiccough and proposes that Eryximachus cure
him or speak; Eryximachus prescribes for the hiccough and begins speaking.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: lines 191-204
quote_or_summary: Eryximachus agrees there are two loves, extends them to animals,
plants, and the body, and describes medicine, other arts, music, and Heracleitus'
harmony of opposites in relation to reconciliation.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: lines 205-212
quote_or_summary: The old tale of fair Urania and coarse Polyhymnia is invoked in
relation to education, song, metre, moderation, and the medical analogy of gratifying
taste without causing disease.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: lines 213-225
quote_or_summary: The passage applies harmony and disagreement to seasons, elemental
pairs, heavenly bodies, divination, piety and impiety, and friendship with gods
and humans.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: lines 226-231
quote_or_summary: Eryximachus says Aristophanes may supply omissions, notes that
Aristophanes is cured of the hiccough, and Aristophanes is named as the next speaker.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source metadata; full text use allowed.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: The passage is a summary of speeches rather than a primary dramatic excerpt;
literal extraction is strong, while motif mapping is partly thematic and should
be reviewed.
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'
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Used only supplied passage text, metadata, and available taxonomy references. No historical-contact or inheritance claims are made.
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