Teaching Symposium | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Part 1, line 172a to line 177e Symposium is a recollection of events that take place at a drinking party held in Athens. This lesson is about the reasons why Plato decides to present the story from a second- or third-hand account instead of telling it as if it were happening.

1) 1) Class Discussion: Who begins the dialogue of Symposium? Why is Apollodorus asked to retell...
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