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

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.

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.

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.

To avoid confusion, the annual scientific research conference dedicated to the study of MND is called the International ALS / MND Symposium.

Thus, according to the character Pausanias in Plato's Symposium, Aphrodite is two goddesses, one older while the other younger.

He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium, which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaining a prize for his first tragedy at the Lenaia in 416.

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

According to Dr Rupert Thompson, the Orator of The University of Cambridge, the earliest reference to drinking games in Western literature is from Plato's Symposium The Drinking Party.

He partly retreated from this position in a September 2007 address to the World Nuclear Association's Annual Symposium, suggesting that climate change would stabilise and prove survivable, and that the Earth itself is in " no danger " because it would stabilise in a new state.

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

In the Symposium, the Good is closely identified with the Beautiful.

The International Symposium on Wearable Computers is the longest-running academic conference on the subject of wearable computers.

The largest firework rocket is 13. 40 kg ( 29. 53 lb ) and was produced and launched by Associaçao Nacional de Empresas de Produtos Explosivos ( Portugal ) at the 12th International Symposium on Fireworks in Oporto and Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, on October 13, 2010.

The Tombstone Western Film Festival and Symposium founded in 2001 is held in July in Tombstone, Arizona, a historic western mining town ( and later ghost town ) in the USA celebrated in western films as the site of the legendary Gunfight at the O. K.

* The song is referenced in the 1962 Academy Award nominated animated short Disney musical film, A Symposium on Popular Songs during the song, " Although I Dropped $ 100, 000 " written by Robert & Richard Sherman.

In Plato's Symposium, when Alcibiades likens Socrates to Marsyas, it is this aspect of the wise satyr that is intended.

While the Iliad never explicitly stated as such, in later Greek writings, such as Plato's Symposium, the relationship between Patroclus and Achilles is held up as a model of romantic love.

The structure of The Symposium and Phaedo, attributed to Plato, is of a story within a story within a story.

The primary academic conference in the field is the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality ( ISMAR ).

" Although a Human Effects Advisory Panel was established in 1998 to provide independent assessment on human effects, data, and models for the use of ' non-lethal weapons ' on the general population, the TECOM Technology Symposium in 1997 concluded on non-lethal weapons: " Determining the target effects on personnel is the greatest challenge to the testing community ," primarily because " the potential of injury and death severely limits human tests.

* Carl Czerny Music Festival and International Symposium 13 – 26 June 2002, Edmonton, Alberta The lower portion of this page contains an article from the Edmonton Journal ( principal daily newspaper in Edmonton ) declaring that Czerny is unfairly judged by history.

Soon after Plato, Xenophon wrote his own Symposium ; also, Aristotle is said to have written several philosophical dialogues in Plato's style ( none of which have survived ).

It is only in Xenophon's Symposium where we have Socrates agree that she is ( in Antisthenes ' words ) " the hardest to get along with of all the women there are.

The form of the Saturnalia is copied from Plato's Symposium and Gellius's Noctes atticae ; the chief authorities ( whose names, however, are not quoted ) are Gellius, Seneca the philosopher, Plutarch ( Quaestiones conviviales ), Athenaeus and the commentaries of Servius and others on Virgil.

Dummer presented the idea to the public at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D. C. on 7 May 1952.

His seminal paper, The Complexity of Theorem Proving Procedures, presented at the 1971 ACM SIGACT Symposium on the Theory of Computing, laid the foundations for the theory of NP-Completeness.

Published in 1972 and presented for the first time at the International Students ' Committee ( ISC ) annual Management Symposium in St. Gallen, Switzerland, it predicted that economic growth could not continue indefinitely because of the limited availability of natural resources, particularly oil.

Paper presented to Tusiad Symposium national Participation and Consensus, Istanbul.

After MIPS was taken over by Silicon Graphics in 1992, Koblas presented a paper on SOCKS at that year's Usenix Security Symposium and SOCKS became publicly available.

( Early version presented at Fourteenth International Wittgenstein Symposium ( Centenary Celebration ) held in Kirchberg / Wechsel, August 13 – 20, 1989.

The findings of the study, led by Dr. Silvia Mandell, were presented at the Fourth International Scientific Symposium on Tea and Human Health in Washington D. C., in 2007.

Some of these theories are presented in Plato's Symposium.

" The Q-system was presented at the first Technical Symposium on Ballistic Missiles held at the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation in Los Angeles on June 21 and 22, 1956.

* Heinz von Foerster, invited by Jean Piaget, presented " Objects: tokens for ( Eigen -) behaviours " in 1976 in Geneva at a Genetic Epistemology Symposium, a text that would become a reference for constructivist epistemology.

The term was coined and defined by American sociologist Erving Goffman in his paper " On the Characteristics of Total Institutions " presented in April 1957 at the Walter Reed Institute's Symposium on Preventive and Social Psychiatry, with an expanded version appearing in Donald Cressey's collection The Prison and reprinted in Goffman's 1961 collection Asylums.

Languages of Cape York: Papers presented to a Symposium organised by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies.

Washburn presented this theory in several of her major works, including her early papers and in chapters she contributed to several collections, including Feelings and Emotions: The Wittenberg Symposium and Psychologies of 1930 However, it was most clearly outlined in what she considered her greatest work, Movement and Mental Imagery: Outlines of a Motor Theory of the Complexer Mental Processes

Although not as well known as the Pejsa model, an additional alternative ballistic model was presented in 1989 by Colonel Duff Manges ( U S Army Retired ) at the American Defense Preparedness ( ADPA ) 11th International Ballistic Symposium held at the Brussels Congress Center, Brussels, Belgium, May 9-11, 1989.

In July 2004 he presented a paper at the Linux Symposium.

A new CVT using this technology, the Warko, was presented in Berlin during the 6th International CTI Symposium of Innovative Automotive Transmissions, on 3 – 7 December 2007.

Prof HM Seegenschmiedt from the Strahlenzentrum Hamburg, whose experience treating Dupuytrens with radiotherapy dates back to 1987, presented his findings at the 2010 International Symposium on Dupuytren's Disease in Miami, USA.

The term " cognitive neuropsychiatry ” was coined by Prof Hadyn Ellis ( Cardiff University ) in a paper “ The cognitive neuropsychiatric origins of the Capgras delusion ”, presented at the International Symposium on the Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia, Institute of Psychiatry, London ( Coltheart, 2007 ).

On September 29, 2009, DAU was presented with two awards during the Chief Learning Officer Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

In 1975, in a paper presented to the Joint Symposium of the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics in Los Angeles, he wrote, " If you object, I ask you to explain – quantitatively, not qualitatively – the reported phenomena of materialization and dematerialization, of shape changes, of the noiseless hovering in the Earth's gravitational field, accelerations that – for an appreciable mass – require energy sources far beyond present capabilities – even theoretical capabilities, the well-known and often reported E-M ( sc.

Although the 16 Forms have now been taught for some time, the families all presented them as a set to attendees of the First International Tai Chi Chuan Symposium in Nashville, TN in July 2009.

The final results were presented in November 2006 at the ISoLA 2006 International Symposium in Paphos, Cyprus.

The report was presented at the 20th Usenix Security Symposium in San Francisco in August 2011.

In 2006 and 2007, papers presented at the British Contact Lens Association and the Global Orthokeratology Symposium indicated the possibility of orthokeratology slowing or stopping myopic progression.