When Plato Laughs
When Plato Laughs

Summary/Abstract: The present paper re-investigates one of the most important Platonic dialogues in the light of the mythos-logos dialectic, as defined by J.J. Wunenburger. The myth of the androgynous, in Symposium, is reconsidered in the light of what Mikhail Bakhtin calls “seriocomic” or “the culture of folk laughter”, as an anthropogenetic parody of a mythocractic discourse on genesis. The reevaluation of Plato reception meets narratologic reading to prove that Aristophanes retelling of the myth must be read inside the context of Platonic discourse and not independently.

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