Eros Is Not Love. It's Divine Madness - And Plato Knew It

Explore my library of written work, download them here: https://hermodorusphilosophy.com Plato called it Divine Madness. Hesiod said it was older than the gods themselves. Before Cupid. Before Valentine's Day. Before the "baby with arrows". There was something far older. Far more dangerous. Eros. In Hesiod's Theogony, Erοs has no parents. He emerges alongside Chaos and Gaia. He is not the result of life he is its Cause. He is Lysimeles: the one who loosens the limbs, shatters boundaries, paralyzes logic. In this episode we go deep into Plato's Symposium and the secret teaching of Diotima a priestess who reveals that Eros is not a god, not a human, but a Great Daimon. A force that stands between the mortal and the divine. We explore: Why Mania (Madness) is not what you think The hidden root man- that connects Greek, Sanskrit and modern language The difference between Eros and Antеros (and why Valentine's Day celebrates the wrong one) The myth of Poros and Penia and what it really means Diotima's Ladder of Ascent: Bodies → Souls → Laws → Sciences → Beauty The 12 Olympian Gods as a map of the two hemispheres of the brain The Golden Ratio of the Greek Pantheon Heraclitus' most devastating fragment on mortality and immortality This is not mythology. This is a map of the mind. #Plato #Eros #GreekPhilosophy #AncientGreece #GreekMythology #DivineМadness #Symposium #Diotima #Philosophy #AncientWisdom #GreekGods #Mythology #Consciousness #SoulAscent #Hermes #Thauma #Wonder #Anamnesis