I. Eros and the Female in Greek Political Thought

Abstract

They do not understand that being brought apart is carried back together with itself; it is a back-stretching harmony as of the bow and the lyre.

Herakleitus, Frag. 51

“Tell me, you, the heir of the argument,” I said, “what was it Simonides said about justice that you assert he said correctly?”“That it is just to give to each what is owed,” he said. “In saying this he said a fine thing, at least in my opinion.”

Plato, Republic 331e

(Bloom translation)