Koinōnia in the Symposium: from community to communion?

Plato’s Symposium stages a playful subversion of paiderastia by philosophia through successive interconnected speeches. Phaedrus and Agathon praise Erōs as god presiding over homoerotic relationships, be it at war or peace. Pausanias Eryximachus distinguish between two Erōtes, being eager to supervise these paiderastic communities even the cosmic harmony. But Aristophanes subverts their perspective introducing Androgyne, combination male female, which displayed Socrates-Diotima will finally give birth Erōs-Daimōn. Only he ensures us real human community enabling true communion with divine, witness Alcibiades’ final Socrates.