# Eryximachus — Dialogues character guide

> Eryximachus in Dialogues by Plato.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Eryximachus Love

**First appearance:** 0031-symposium

## Snapshot

A physician who prescribes moderation for the evening's drinking and then prescribes a theory of love as cosmic harmony.

## Who they are

Eryximachus is the sober professional among the revelers, a doctor who takes charge of the symposium's practical arrangements and then takes charge of its intellectual agenda. He treats love as a force to be balanced like bodily humors, extending his medical expertise into cosmology with confident, sometimes comic, generality. His speech sets the pattern the others will follow and vary, making him the evening's quiet architect.

## In the story

### [Symposium](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/dialogues_se/chapters/symposium)

The physician who offers to speak in Aristophanes' turn and advises remedies for the hiccup.

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