Download Aristophanes Symposium Background. Against the background of the. 'acharnians' was performed in 425 b.c.
In plato's symposium, aristophanes' contributes his story of the creation of lesbians, gays, and heterosexuals.
Aristophanes speech about love in platos symposium. Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. 388 b.c.e.) was a greek dramatist of the old and middle comedy period. In former times, aristophanes says, people were shaped differently, with four hands and the same number of legs.
