batch.motif.greek-plato-symposium-jowett-gutenberg-l2935-l2956
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
passage_locator:
label: Symposium / SYMPOSIUM / INTRODUCTION. / SYMPOSIUM; lines 2935-2956
start: '2935'
end: '2956'
translation: Symposium
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: A banquet is disrupted by revellers, leading to disorder and heavy drinking.
As others leave or sleep, Socrates remains with Aristophanes and Agathon, argues
that the same genius belongs to comedy and tragedy, then departs at dawn, bathes
at the Lyceum, spends the day as usual, and rests at home in the evening.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Agathon rises to take a place on the couch by Socrates.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A band of revellers enters through an open door and disrupts the order of
the banquet.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Confusion follows, and everyone is compelled to drink large quantities of
wine.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: Eryximachus, Phaedrus, and others leave, while Aristodemus falls asleep.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: Aristodemus wakes toward daybreak after hearing cocks crowing.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: At daybreak only Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon remain drinking from
a large goblet passed around while Socrates speaks.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: Socrates argues that the genius of comedy is the same as that of tragedy,
and that the true tragic artist is also an artist in comedy.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: Aristophanes and then Agathon fall asleep while drowsy and not fully following
the argument.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: After laying them to sleep, Socrates rises and departs, followed by Aristodemus.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: Socrates bathes at the Lyceum, passes the day as usual, and rests at home
in the evening.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Socrates
description: Participant at the banquet who remains awake, drinks from the shared
goblet, discourses on comedy and tragedy, departs at dawn, bathes at the Lyceum,
and later rests at home.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:10
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Agathon
description: Participant who rises to sit by Socrates, remains drinking at daybreak,
and later falls asleep.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Aristodemus
description: Narrating witness who falls asleep, wakes toward daybreak, partly hears
Socrates' discourse, and follows Socrates when he departs.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Aristophanes
description: Participant who remains drinking with Socrates and Agathon at daybreak
and falls asleep before Agathon.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:8
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Eryximachus
description: Participant who goes away before the final dawn scene.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Phaedrus
description: Participant who goes away before the final dawn scene.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: band of revellers
description: Uninvited group that enters through an open door, makes itself at home,
and disrupts the banquet order.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
roles:
- id: role:1
label: wakeful speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Socrates remains awake, drinks with the remaining guests, and discourses
to them before departing.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- id: role:2
label: drowsy interlocutor
assigned_to:
- fig:2
- fig:4
basis: Agathon and Aristophanes remain with Socrates but are drowsy, assent to his
argument, and fall asleep.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:8
- id: role:3
label: sleeping witness
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: Aristodemus sleeps, wakes toward daybreak, hears only part of the discourse,
and reports what he remembers.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: departing participant
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: Eryximachus and Phaedrus are named among those who went away.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: role:5
label: disruptive entrants
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The revellers enter through the open door and spoil the order of the banquet.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: wine
literal_form: large quantities of wine
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:2
label: large goblet
literal_form: large goblet passed round among Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: sym:3
label: open door
literal_form: door left open through which revellers enter
associated_figures:
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: crowing cocks
literal_form: crowing of cocks toward daybreak
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:5
label: bath
literal_form: bath taken by Socrates at the Lyceum
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: banquet disrupted by revellers
summary: As Agathon moves to sit by Socrates, revellers enter through an open door,
disturb the order, and the company is made to drink heavily.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:2
label: dawn drinking and discourse
summary: After several guests depart or sleep, Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon
remain at daybreak drinking from a shared goblet while Socrates argues about comedy
and tragedy.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: scene:3
label: sleep and departure
summary: Aristophanes and Agathon fall asleep; Socrates departs, followed by Aristodemus,
then bathes at the Lyceum and continues his day normally.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: wakeful sage outlasts companions
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Socrates remains awake and reasoning while other participants are drowsy,
fall asleep, or leave; he then continues his ordinary day.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:8
- ev:9
- ev:10
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage presents a philosophical banquet scene rather than an explicit
mythic episode; the wisdom motif is inferred from Socrates' wakefulness and discourse.
- id: motif:2
label: disorderly intrusion into ritualized feast
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Revellers enter through an open door, spoil the order of the banquet, and
cause confusion and heavy drinking.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage describes a social disruption, not an explicitly sacred or
mythic feast.
- id: motif:3
label: shared cup at liminal dawn discourse
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: At daybreak, the remaining three participants drink from a large goblet passed
round while Socrates discourses.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: low
cautions: The symbolic or ritual significance of the goblet and dawn is not stated
in the passage.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: 2935-2936
quote_or_summary: Agathon rises to take his place on the couch by Socrates.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 2936-2939
quote_or_summary: A band of revellers enters through an open door, finds its way
in, and spoils the order of the banquet.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: 2939-2941
quote_or_summary: Confusion follows and everyone is compelled to drink large quantities
of wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: 2941-2943
quote_or_summary: Aristodemus says Eryximachus, Phaedrus, and others went away,
while he himself fell asleep.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: 2943-2945
quote_or_summary: Aristodemus wakes toward daybreak after hearing the crowing of
cocks.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: 2945-2948
quote_or_summary: Only Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon remain, drinking from
a large goblet passed around while Socrates discourses.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: 2948-2952
quote_or_summary: Aristodemus partly hears Socrates compelling the other two to
acknowledge that comedy and tragedy share the same genius and that a true tragic
artist is also an artist in comedy.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: 2952-2954
quote_or_summary: The two interlocutors assent while drowsy; Aristophanes falls
asleep first, then Agathon as day is dawning.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: 2954-2955
quote_or_summary: After laying them to sleep, Socrates rises to depart, and Aristodemus
follows him.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: 2955-2956
quote_or_summary: At the Lyceum Socrates takes a bath, passes the day as usual,
and rests at home in the evening.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/symposium-jowett.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: high
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward from the supplied passage. Motif candidates
are cautious because the passage is philosophical narrative rather than explicit
myth. No passage-supported external comparison claims were added.
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 the provided passage and metadata; no external comparisons added.
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