With the world at war and so many in need, Angelo and Eva face trial after trial, choice after agonizing choice, until fate and fortune finally collide, leaving them with the most difficult decision of all.
With the Gestapo closing in, Angelo hides Eva within the walls of a convent, where Eva discovers she is just one of many Jews being sheltered by the Catholic Church.īut Eva can’t quietly hide, waiting for deliverance, while Angelo risks everything to keep her safe. The young Alcibiades (later became Athenian staesman) and a band of drunken revellers burst in upon the feast at which the poet Agathon (lived 400s B.C.) is entertaining Socrates and others. A long time ago, there existed three different. A characteristic picture of ancient Grecian life, this illustrates the story told in Plato’s Banquet or Symposium. Now, more than a decade later, Angelo is a Catholic priest and Eva is a woman with nowhere to turn. In Platos Symposium, Aristophanes delivers his speech in the form of a myth. As the years go by, the two find themselves falling in love.īut the church calls to Angelo and, despite his deep feelings for Eva, he chooses the priesthood. Plato, by using the dialogue of Socrates and Diotima, undermines the institution of homosexuality and the validity of the boyfriend. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822, tr Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, printer Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) Evidence reported by ian frederick-rothwell for item banquetofplato00platrich on October 4, 2007: no visible notice of copyright stated date is 1908. Italy, 1943-Germany occupies much of the country, placing the Jewish population in grave danger during World War II.Īs children, Eva Rosselli and Angelo Bianco were raised like family but divided by circumstance and religion. Menelaus but afaint-hearted warrior, he represents Menelaus as coming un invited to the feast of one better and.
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