La máscara del adivino: metáforas de la mántica en el Banquete de Platón

in recent decades, the theorists have been studied the tragic-comic aspect of the plato‘s symposium such as his intertextual composition and the genres of discourse. nevertheless, these studies do not take care of the mantiké. the few mentions of the divination in the text (those are explicative and comparative comments) do not symbolize how important this practice is to the platonic dialogue. such is the case of the socrates's answer to diotima: "it would take a seer -i replied- to see what on earth you mean？ (206c). based on this sentence, we can reframe the mantic meaning of plato's erotic theory and also the socrates's acting as a seer. that dramatization, in connection with the tragic prophets (tiresias and cassandra), could reveal not only the discursives strategies in the symposium but also the philosophical metaphor of the mantis as a steriotype in greek tragedy.