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.

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.

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.

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.

Aristophanes, in Plato's Symposium, mentions women who love women, but uses the term trepesthai ( to be focused on ) instead of eros, which was applied to other erotic relationships between men, and between men and women.

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.

Sometimes, proverbs are important parts of poems, such as Paul Muldoon's " Symposium ", which begins " You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it hold its nose to the grindstone and hunt with the hounds.

Teaching organizations include the European Board of Urology, as well as the Vattikuti Urology Institute in Detroit, which also hosts an annual International Robotic Urology Symposium devoted to new technologies.

In 1976, Liberty Hill hosted an International Sculpture Symposium, which created the Liberty Hill International Sculpture Park.

Plunkett related the story of this accidental discovery at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society national meeting in the History of Chemistry section, April 1986 in New York City which was published in the Symposium Proceedings.

His success as a teacher was striking, and he found time to publish an edition of the Symposium of Plato, which excited notice, and led to his promotion ( 1783 ) to a chair in the Prussian University of Halle.

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 ).

A band statement for which reads “ Sleep are honored to attend the Symposium of Iommic Research, Tilburg at Roadburn ”.

In 2002, Changde, China, site of the flea spraying attack, held an " International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare " which estimated that at least 580, 000 people died as a result of the attack.

* Stages on Life's Way, a book which includes In Vino Veritas, Søren Kierkegaard's dialogue on love based on Symposium

In addition, Athenaeus mentions works called Symposium and Arcesilaus, and Diogenes Laërtius mentions a Sale of Diogenes () written by Menippus which seems to be the main source of the story that Diogenes of Sinope was captured by pirates and sold into slavery.

Platonic love in this original sense of the term is examined in Plato's dialogue the Symposium, which has as its topic the subject of love or Eros generally.

It is derived from the concept in Plato's Symposium of the love of the idea of good which lies at the root of all virtue and truth.

In the old debate surrounding Xenophon's and Plato's works, the Sacred Band has figured prominently as a possible way of dating which of the two wrote their version of Symposium first.

He would have been known among the educated of the audience for his presence at the Greek banquet in Plato ’ s Symposium at which he gets the last word on the nature of love, proposing that it cannot be found in superficial appearance.

These terms are in reference to a section of Plato's Symposium in which two kinds of love are discussed, symbolised by an Aphrodite who is born from a male ( Uranos ), and an Aphrodite who is born from a female ( Dione ).

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

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

The first conference in the field, Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing ( PODC ), dates back to 1982, and its European counterpart International Symposium on Distributed Computing ( DISC ) was first held in 1985.

The research was peer-reviewed and was the recipient of the Defense Acquisition University Acquisition Research Symposium 1997 Acker Award for excellence in the exchange of information in the field of acquisition research.

In 1984 he was invited to give the plenary lecture at the Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria.

MINIX 3 was publicly announced on 24 October 2005 by Andrew Tanenbaum during his keynote speech on top of the ACM Symposium Operating Systems Principles conference.

In 1991, Singer was due to speak along with R. M. Hare and Georg Meggle at the fifteenth International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria.

The first known presentation describing use of similar phases in software engineering was held by Herbert D. Benington at Symposium on advanced programming methods for digital computers on 29 June 1956.

* Joan Riddell Cook ( January 5, 1922, Portland, Oregon-February 5, 1995, New York City ) was an American newspaper journalist and editor, a trade union leader, and a founding director of JAWS ( Journalism and Women Symposium ).

" He received the first Human Rights Award from the International Symposium on Circumcision ( ISC ) in 1991 and was quoted saying " My own preference, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone ".

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.

Finally in 1985, at the first Umami International Symposium in Hawaii, the term umami was officially recognized as the scientific term to describe the taste of glutamates and nucleotides.

However, Xenophon in his Symposium, argued that it was inaccurate to label their relationship as romantic.

In Plato's Symposium, Penae (" deficiency " or " poverty " in Latin ) or Penia-(" deficiency " or " poverty " in Greek ) was the personification of poverty and need.

On October 9 – 11, 2009, the twentieth annual Lincoln Cowboy Symposium was held at Ruidoso Downs.

" 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.

In December 1983, continuing in her role as " America's Youngest Ambassador ", she was invited to Japan, where she met with the Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and attended the Children's International Symposium in Kobe.

Three of his lectures and two panel discussions he participated in were recorded when he was a featured speaker at both the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium ( both with and without Robert Anton Wilson ) and produced by the Association for Consciousness Exploration.

Farnsworth was the spokesman for the Lincoln County Cowboy Symposium, an annual event in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Note: this conference was held jointly with Annual Symposium of the Association of Forensic Document Examiners

Held jointly with several conferences including the Asia Pacific Security Conference ( APSEC ), the C4I Asia Conference ( C4i Asia ), the Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium ( APATS ), the Asian Aerospace UAV Asia-Pacific Conference and the IATA / Asian Aerospace Aviation Summit, it featured a rebranded Asian Defense Technology military component.

In the year of the 150th anniversary of ETH Zurich, the swiss university was home to an Einstein Symposium, which was jointly organized with the University of Zurich.