Plato"s Symposium provides us with many different views and theories about love. Platonic love as I understood it was simply the love between two human beings in a nonromantic sense. In these readings Eros presents ideas about love, ideas that have not lost their relevance throughout the test of time. However being what it was, and that is many different peoples thoughts on the subject of Eros, there is a wide variety of ideas to choose from to formulate a theory which would completely encapsulate all that is love.

             Platonic love to me was nothing more then love found in a nonromantic setting. For example the first conclusion I draw when I begin to describe platonic love is that which is found between a brother and a sister. It is almost as though this type of love leaves out all of the exciting aspects, which make love so wonderful, yet so dangerous. Of course platonic love can take place between friends I suppose, which in some cases leads to a developed relationship blooming into a situation full of longing, desire, and romance. Plato defined somewhat differently, to him it was more creative, and balanced with sexual yearning, and desire, that was my take on how he spoke of love. At any rate I feel the term platonic in many instances is stable, but it can be proven that it is subject to change course and become a romantic affair. .

             In Symposium, Diotima speaks through Socrates when she gives her version of where love came from. She says that Love is the child of Resource and Poverty, conceived on the day that Aphrodite was born. Love is a follower of Aphrodite because he was conceived at the party following her birth, and because "He is naturally a lover of beauty and Aphrodite is beautiful"(Gill, 203c). Because of whom his mother is Love is always poor and homeless. He is quite tough from sleeping on the ground or in doorways and from being shoeless. Yet, because his mother is who she is he is always in need, but because of whom his father is he is constantly scheming to get good and beautiful things.