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This paper presents an in-depth essay on the representation of Love in Plato's "Symposium" and Ovid's story of Orpheus and Eurydice in his "Metamorphosis." The paper argues that Ovid was greatly influenced by Plato's theories of Love as expressed in the "Symposium" and that Ovid's character of Orpheus comes to represent many of the traits attributed to Love in Plato's text.

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"Ovid's Metamorphosis (c. 8 AD), written approximately four hundred years after Plato's Symposium (c. 365 BC), consists of many short tales that describe some of the major Ancient Greek and Roman mythological legends. Included among these tales is the story of "Orpheus," which traces the quest Orpheus makes to find his dead wife, Eurydice, in the underworld in order to bring her back to the world of the living. As noted in Plato's "The Speech of Diotima," from the Symposium, Love can be both spiritual and physical. Orpheus demonstrates both kinds of Love, but it is..."

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