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1.柏拉图爱(不爱)谁

I am a classicist

And one of the things I like looking at is the relationship between ancient and the modern worlds to think about the extent to which the ancient world influences the modern world and the different ways in which aspect of contemporary society lend scope and understand ancient things

But today what I want to present you is a little bit of that

But also just basically one of the platonic texts that we still got and its relationship with love

Think about understanding material which continues to pose problems for us all the way through

Let's see if this works

Great

We have all heard the term platonic love

And on a day like today it's possibly not one that most want to receive those unsigned hugs

So I looked it up in the OED

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