Abstract

Two sources of inspiration are suggested for the story told by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium: representations on coins and ceramic vessels of heads with two opposing faces and a fragment of Hermippus, a poet of Old Comedy, in which Year is described as a rotund character who moves in a circular manner.

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