The epideictic speech in praise of love which Agathon recites in the Symposium is full of beautiful but artificial rhetorical expressions, and has led some scholars to believe he may have been a student of Gorgias.

Socrates turns politely to Agathon and with Agathon's cooperation examines his speech.

Agathon answers affirmatively to Socrates ' line of questioning, thus refuting many of the statements in his previous speech ( 199d ).

Despite this speech, Agathon then lies down next to Socrates, much to the chagrin of Alcibiades.

She begins to experience shared visions ( with Sharon Agathon and Number Six ) which involve the human-cylon hybrid child, Hera.

He is presented as such in The Acharnians, where Aristophanes shows him to be living morosely in a precarious house, surrounded by the tattered costumes of his disreputable characters ( and yet Agathon, another tragic poet, is discovered in a later play, Thesmophoriazusae, to be living in circumstances almost as bizarre ).

How it fared in that festival's drama competition is unknown but it is now considered one of Aristophanes ' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.

Among the historical male couples, where both partners were adults, are Pausanias of Athens and the tragic poet Agathon, already in his thirties.

In the Symposium, Agathon is presented as the friend of the comic poet Aristophanes, but this alleged friendship did not prevent Aristophanes from harshly criticizing Agathon in at least two of his comic plays: the Thesmophoriazousae and the ( now lost ) Gerytades.

Cyrene is also mentioned in the second and third hymns of Callimachus as well as in The Poet and the Women ( written by Aristophanes ) whence Mnesilochus comments that he " can't see a man there at all-only Cyrene " when setting eyes upon the poet Agathon who emerges from his house to greet Euripides and himself dressed in women's clothing.

The poet Agathon hosted a symposium to celebrate victory in his first dramatic competition, the Dionysia of 416 BC.

The most famous symposium of all, described in Plato's dialogue of that name ( and rather differently in Xenophon's ) was hosted by the poet Agathon on the occasion of his first victory at the theater contest of the 416 BC Dionysia.

After the fall of Athens Choerilus settled at the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, where he was the associate of Agathon, Melanippides, and Plato the comic poet.

Agathon was also the first playwright to write choral parts which were apparently independent from the main plot of his plays.

Like many other Wallenberg relatives, Knut Agathon Wallenberg was also involved in Swedish politics and diplomacy becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs 1914 – 1917, and member of the Riksdags first chamber ( Parliament of Sweden ) 1907 – 1919.

As Aristodemus awakes and leaves the house, Socrates is proclaiming to Agathon and Aristophanes that a skillful playwright should be able to write comedy as well as tragedy ( 223d ).

This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium ( Plato ) | Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home.

Agathon (; gen .: Ἀγάθωνος ) ( ca.

Agathon was the lifelong companion of Pausanias, with whom he appears in both the Symposium and Plato's Protagoras.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

Agathon is portrayed by Plato as a handsome young man, well dressed, of polished manners, courted by the fashion, wealth and wisdom of Athens, and dispensing hospitality with ease and refinement.

Agathon was also a friend of Euripides, another recruit to the court of Archelaus of Macedon.

Agathon's extraordinary physical beauty is brought up repeatedly in the sources ; the historian W. Rhys Roberts observes that " ὁ καλός Ἀγάθων ( ho kalos Agathon ) has become almost a stereotyped phrase.

" The most detailed surviving description of Agathon is in the Thesmophoriazousae, in which Agathon appears as a pale, clean-shaven young man dressed in women's clothes.

Snyder theorizes that Agathon might have made a deliberate effort to mimic the sumptuous attire of his famous fellow-poet, although by Agathon's time, such clothing, especially the κεκρύφαλος ( kekryphalos, an elaborate covering for the hair ) had long fallen out of fashion for men.

According to this interpretation, Agathon is mocked in the Thesmophoriazousae not only for his notorious effeminacy, but also for the pretentiousness of his dress: " he seems to think of himself, in all his elegant finery, as a rival to the old Ionian poets, perhaps even to Anacreon himself.

:::: Kissing Agathon, I had my soul upon my lips ; for it rose, poor wretch, as though to cross over.

:::: Kissing Agathon, I found my soul at my lips.

Although the authenticity of this epigram was accepted for many centuries, it was probably not composed for Agathon the tragedian, nor was it composed by Plato.

The foundation followed a substantial donation in 1903 by Knut Agathon Wallenberg.

* Finnish politician and journalist Agathon Meurman was born and lived in Kangasala, and owned the Liuksiala manor.

The epic poem Alcmeonis as well as the Alcmaeon of Sophocles, and those of Agathon and Achaeus, have all been lost.

Two years later Agathon, the Fabergés ' second son, was born.

His brother, Agathon, an extremely talented and creative designer, joined the business from Dresden, where he had also possibly studied at the Arts and Crafts School.

For example, some people pronounce ( meaning " fish ") as, the " r " is dropped and the vowel begins by dipping much lower in tone than standard speech and then rises, effectively doubling its length.

Once Mojo Jojo hits her again to knock her out and return her to normal, he begins a rambling speech in which he proclaims " One shall be the number of Mojo Jojos in the world, and the number of Mojo Jojos in the world shall be one!

At the climax, Adolf Hitler is ready to deliver a critically important speech, but begins chanting the marching song.

Modern phonetics begins with attempts — such as those of Joshua Steele ( in Prosodia Rationalis, 1779 ) and Alexander Melville Bell ( in Visible Speech, 1867 ) — to introduce systems of precise notation for speech sounds.

In later, expanded editions, " Stammering and Stuttering " begins to reflect Hunt's growing passion for anthropology exploring, as it does, the nature of language usage and speech disorders in non-European peoples.

The story begins with the closing moments of a rather dull government lecture and slide show on agricultural policy, after which the leader of the security police of a right-wing military-dominated government takes over the podium for an impassioned speech describing the government's program to combat leftism, using the metaphors of “ a mildew of the mind ”, an infiltration of “ isms ”, or “ sunspots ”.

She arranges to meet him, telling Sobinski to come to her dressing room when Tura begins his " To be or not to be ..." speech, so they can be sure of privacy.

" He eyeballs Sobinski in the audience as he begins the speech, but both of them are struck dumb when a new young man gets up and heads backstage.

Estuary English shares many features with Cockney, and there is some debate among linguists as to where Cockney speech ends and Estuary English begins.

Regarding the long sequence that begins with Homer eating potato chips in the space shuttle and ends with Kent Brockman's dramatic speech, Turner claimed that it was " simply among the finest comedic moments in the history of television ".

This speech is very famous and begins with the words ' I have a little idea ..'.

In writing to George Devine, who directed the Old Vic production, Beckett suggests that “ the inquirer ( light ) begins to emerge as no less a victim of his inquiry than they and as needing to be free, within narrow limits, literally to act the part, i. e. to vary only slightly his speeds and intensities .” But the role of the light is even more ambiguous, for it has also been seen as “ a metaphor for our attention ( relentless, all-consuming, whimsical )” and a way of “ switching on and switching off speech exactly as a playwright does when he moves from one line of dialogue on his page to the next .” Neither of these analogies conflicts with the more popular views where the spotlight is believed by to represent God, or some other moral agent tasked with assessing, each character's case to be relieved from the binds of the urn by having them relive this relationship, which has ruined all their lives.

The speech begins: " Mr. Speaker, members of Congress and fellow citizens.

Some felt the study was poorly designed and executed by Tudor, and as a result the data offered no proof of Johnson's subsequent theory that " stuttering begins, not in the child's mouth but in the parent's ear " -- i. e., that it is the well-meaning parent's effort to help the child avoid what the parent has labelled " stuttering " ( but is in fact within the range of normal speech ) that contributes to what ultimately becomes the problem diagnosed as stuttering.

* Phaedrus ( speech begins 178a ): was an Athenian aristocrat associated with the inner-circle of the philosopher Socrates, familiar from Phaedrus and other dialogues.

* Pausanias ( speech begins 180c ): the legal expert.

* Eryximachus ( speech begins 186a ): a physician.

* Aristophanes ( speech begins 189c ): the eminent comic playwright.

* Socrates ( speech begins 201d ): the eminent philosopher and Plato's teacher.

* Alcibiades ( speech begins 214e ): a prominent Athenian statesman, orator and general.

In many episodes, Kyle draws upon his sense of social purpose and moral outrage, and reflects on the lessons he has learned during the course of an episode, with a speech that often begins " You know, I learned something today ...".

In many episodes, Stan contemplates ethics in beliefs, moral dilemmas, and contentious issues, and will often reflect on the lessons he has attained with a speech that often begins with " You know, I learned something today ...".

Kālidāsa begins Kumārsambhava, Raghuvaṃśa and Meghaduta with the words Asti (" there is "), Kashchit (" something ") and Vāk (" speech.

On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X begins a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan.