This project represents a continuation of my research (in progress) on the concept of platonic leisure (skholê) and is dedicated to the historical and hermeneutical analysis of the characteristics of temporality in festivals, as moments of Ancient Greek skholê. Focusing on the Platonic Symposium, a text uniquely embedded in the dimension of “festive time”, it aims at arguing that the structural narrative of the dialogue brings forward discontinuity or rupture as the main traits of skholê.