Agathon
historical figure · 5 works · 8 mentions · 15 anchored passages
the olive-merchant · the poet Agathon
spoken of as
1 expressionAgathon the olive-merchant1 mention
Against Aristogeiton I (Greek)
At the trial of Agathon, the olive-merchant, a day or two ago, he bellowed and ranted and cried Ha-ha!
in the texts
Symposium
The tragic poet whose victory feast is the occasion of the banquet; host of the gathering.
Then, Apollodorus, he said, do you know, I have just been looking for you, as I want to hear all about the banquet that brought together Agathon and Socrates and Alcibiades and the rest of that party, and what were the speeches they delivered upon love.
Then Socrates sat down, and How fine it would be, Agathon, he said, if wisdom were a sort of thing that could flow out of the one of us who is fuller into him who is emptier, by our mere contact with each other, as water will flow through wool from the fuller cup into the emptier.
After this, it seems, when Socrates had taken his place and had dined with the rest, they made libation and sang a chant to the god and so forth, as custom bids, till they betook them to drinking.
Nicomachean Ethics
Greek tragic poet quoted twice as a poetic authority.
Hence Agathon is right in saying This only is denied even to God, The power to make what has been done undone.
And in a sense Art deals with the same objects as chance, as Agathon says:
Stromata
Tragedian whose saying closes the discourse on proportion.
"treating what is by the way as the main work, and labouring at the main work as though it were by the way.
Against Aristogeiton I
Olive-merchant whose trial is used as an example of Aristogeiton’s paid silence.
At the trial of Agathon, the olive-merchant, a day or two ago, he bellowed and ranted and cried Ha-ha!
Symposium
The poet named as Pausanias' beloved.
Yet Pausanias, the lover of the poet Agathon, has said in his defence of those who wallow in lasciviousness that the most valiant army, even, would be one recruited of lovers and their favourites!