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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

More important is the novel Geschichte des Agathon ( 1766 – 1767 ), in which, under the guise of a Greek fiction, Wieland described his own spiritual and intellectual growth.

The dramatic date of the frame conversation, in which Apollodorus speaks to his unnamed friend, is estimated to be between 401 BC ( fifteen years after Agathon won his prize ) and the time when Socrates was tried and executed in 399 BC.

Agathon says love is dainty, and likes to tiptoe through the flowers and never settles where there is no " bud to bloom " ( 196b ).

Like Agathon and Aristophanes, Alcibiades is a historical person from ancient Athens.

Finding himself seated on a couch with Socrates and Agathon, Alcibiades exclaims that Socrates, again, has managed to sit next to the handsomest man in the room, Agathon, and that he is always doing such things ( 213c ).

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 ).

With the exception of Aristophanes, all of Socrates ' named friends from the Symposium are in attendance: Eryximachus the doctor, and Phaedrus are there, and so are the lovers Pausanias and Agathon ( who is said to be a mere boy at this point ), and Alcibiades.

Penikett is the father of actor Tahmoh Penikett, best known for his work as Karl Agathon in Battlestar Galactica and Paul Ballard in Dollhouse.

Said differently, being the Absolute, Beyond-Being is also the Sovereign Good ( Agathon ), that by its nature desires to communicate itself through the projection of Maya.

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.

Agathon is already dressed as a woman, in preparation for a play, but he believes that the women of Athens are jealous of him and he refuses to attend the festival for fear of being discovered.

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.

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.

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.

A scene from Plato's philosophical work The Symposium, where Alcibiades, the archetypal Athenian aristocrat, arrives drunk at a party hosted by Agathon. Many of the poems of Theognis reflect on man's relation to wine, a symbolic focus for general reflections on the ideal of moderation.

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In a bid to acquire more foreign currency, Joseph Stalin had many of the eggs sold in 1927, after their value had been appraised by Agathon Fabergé.

* Phrynicus: A celebrated tragedian of an older generation ( early 5th Century ), he is mentioned favourably by Agathon as a beautiful man ( kalos ) who dressed beautifully and who wrote beautiful plays ( kal ' dramata ).

* Ibycus, Anacreon and Alcaeus: 6th Century lyrical poets, mentioned favourably by Agathon as examples of poets who dressed and behaved as effetely as himself.

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.

Natalie is then confronted and shot by Hera's mother Sharon " Athena " Agathon, the Number Eight who left the Cylons, married Karl " Helo " Agathon and joined Galacticas crew, because of a dream Athena had in which a Number Six took her daughter.

* A copy, wearing a white overcoat, who captures and kisses Helo before being shot by Sharon Agathon.

* The Wreckage of Agathon, by John Gardner ( 1970 )

The fragments of Chaeremon are distinguished by correctness of form and facility of rhythm, but marred by a florid and affected style reminiscent of Agathon.

One such school was established in Boulogne-sur-Mer in approximately 1815 by Léon de Chanlaire and Father Benoit Agathon Haffreingue, free music instruction was offered there by 1830.

The paradigm of the city — the idea of the Good, the Agathon — has manifold historical embodiments, undertaken by those who have seen the Agathon, and are ordered via the vision.

Agathon has been thought to be the subject of Lovers ' Lips, an epigram attributed to Plato:

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.

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

She gained recognition as Sharon Valerii & Sharon Agathon on Battlestar Galactica, as well as Shannon Ng in the Canadian television series teen soap Edgemont.

The party takes place at the house of the tragedian Agathon in Athens.

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

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

Shortly after Agathon joined the firm, the House introduced objects deluxe: gold bejewelled items embellished with enamel ranging from electric bell pushes to cigarette cases, including objects de fantaisie.

It would seem that none of the characters at the party, with the possible exception of Agathon himself, would be candidates for love's companionship.

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

Although this development distressed Roslin, she decides to bring Baltar with her ( along with Karl Agathon — Athena's husband ) to the Cylon Basestar to see the Hybrid.

The centre piece of the Republic, Part II, numbers 2 – 3, discusses the rule of the philosopher, and the vision of the Agathon with the allegory of the cave, which is clarified in the theory of forms.

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

In 315 BC, when Antigonus began his operations against the confederates, he sent one Ptolemy, a nephew of his, with, an army to relieve Amisus, and to expel from Cappadocia the army with which Asander had invaded that country ; but as Asander was supported by Ptolemy and Cassander, he maintained himself until 313 BC, when Antigonus himself marched against him, and compelled him to conclude a treaty by which he was bound to surrender his whole army, to restore the Greek towns on the coast to freedom, to regard his satrapy of Caria as the gift of Antigonus, and to give his brother Agathon as hostage.