"All About Love" Samples | |
| Scene: Diotima explains the nature of love. | Socrates has just explained to Agathon what love is NOT; Diotima arrives to tell the party-goers what it is. |
| Lyric: Phaedrus' "Wherever Love Goes." | Phaedrus explains that love makes us better than we would be, because a lover would be ashamed to do something, well, shameful, in front of his beloved. |
| Music: Second verse of Aristophanes' "Lost and Found." (Requires QuickTime plugin) | |
| Score: Beginning of Aristophanes' "Lost and Found" | Aristophanes begins his speech by explaining our origins as round people, with four arms and four legs apiece. Finding us too difficult to control, the gods cut us in half - and we began to pine away for our missing halves. At the beginning of the song "Lost and Found," he sings of our inherent loneliness. |