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Cosmas Indicopleustest Analysis

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Setting: Socrates and Cosmas Indicopleustes (an Athenian explorer) run into each other at the agora in Ancient Athens. A dialogue soon develops… Cosmas Indicopleustes: Good day good sir, I have been gone from Athens for a very long time and am looking for someone. By chance could you be Socrates? Socrates: If you have been gone for so long, for what purpose is it that you seek Socrates? Cosmas Indicopleustes: I only wish to ask him a question. Socrates: Naturally. Well I am Socrates. Cosmas Indicopleustes: I am Cosmas Indicopleustes, I have explored the world endlessly and, by the grace of Poseidon, conquered the seas. It is by the hands of Moirea that I have found you! Socrates: That is a debate best saved for another day…but Cosmas Indicopleustes, what brings …show more content…

Surely, you know this much, Socrates? Socrates: I believe I know what you mean. When a man desires a woman, this is love? Cosmas Indicopleustes: But for sure it is. Socrates: So you are saying that every time a man lays his eyes upon a lovely maiden, or when he seeks pleasures at the local brothel, he is in love with all the hetaerai? That is love? Cosmas Indicopleustes: Well, no, that does not sound right. That most certainly is not love. Maybe in some cases, but rarely. Socrates: What would you call this then, if not love? Cosmas Indicopleustes: Why, I would have to call that lust. Socrates: Then love is not lust then? Cosmas Indicopleustes: Undoubtedly it is not. Socrates: So then, for a marriage to have love, a man should not desire his wife? Cosmas Indicopleustes: That is not right! Those feelings may wane over time, but a man should most definitely desire his wife. There must be some sort of attraction between a man and a woman for a relationship to exist. Socrates: So what you mean to say is lust is not love, but love is, in part, lust? Cosmas Indicopleustes: Yes, that is

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