O FR. 16 de Safo e o Banquete de Platão: a relação entre Eros e beleza

Abstract

We will try to show throughout this dissertation that the conception of Eros and beauty (to kalon), as well as the relationship between these two elements, are present in the oldest Greek poetic materials, such as the fragments of Sappho of Lesbos, an archaic melic poet. Thus, when we analyze his Fr. 16, we will point out how erotic conception is in line with the traditional vision in order, finally, to emphasize that the dialogue Platonic Banquet, by bringing to the dance the connection of eros with beauty, rescues themes portrayed in tradition, returning them, however, to philosophy.