Abstract

Scholarly efforts to detect playfulness in the address to Apollodorus at Pl. Symp. 172a are reviewed and found unsatisfactory. In keeping with the dialogue’s erotic theme and comic spirit, a small supplemental emendation of the address’s Φαληρεύς is proposed to effect a phallic mock-demotic à la Aristophanes, Φαλ ηρεύς.