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In this episode, I cover The Birth of Love myth in Plato’s Symposium dialogue. I don’t usually think of Plato as a myth maker, but here he is offering a different spin on the birth of Eros to show how love’s parentage shows our need for Beauty. The ladder of love leads to Plato’s heavenly form of Beauty in a wonderful way. I talk about this myth, Plato’s use of myth, and myth in general in the art of persuasion.

Books / Articles Referenced:

* Plato: Selected Myths / Translation by Catalin Partenie / Oxford World’s Classics

* Hesiod: Theogony / Translation by M.L. West / Oxford World’s Classics

* Plotinus: The Enneads on Love / Translation by Stephen Mackenna / Penguin Classics

* From Plato to Christ / Louis Markos

* God in the Dock: Myth Became Fact / CS. Lewis

* Better Than Sex! / Deacon Harrison Garlick

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