Overview :Phaedrus - Plato - Translated with an introduction by Benjamin Jowett - The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be reg... Read More
Overview :Phaedrus is a dialogue written by Plato that depicts a conversation between Socrates, Plato's famous teacher, and Phaedrus, an Athenian aris... Read More
Overview :Ostensibly a discussion about love, the debate in the Phaedrus also encompasses the art of rhetoric and how it should be practised. This new... Read More
Overview :This combined book of two of Plato's most famous dialogues, Symposium and Phaedrus, contemplates the theme of love, looking at the phenomeno... Read More
Overview :The dialogue begins with a playful discussion of erotic passion, then extends the theme to consider the nature of inspiration, love and know... Read More
Overview :The dating of the Phaedrus has been hotly debated: sometimes it has been counted among Plato's earliest works; sometimes with the dialogues ... Read More
Overview :Plato's dialogue Phaedo portrays Socrates in prison awaiting execution and discussing with his friends the fate of the soul after death. In ... Read More
Overview :Animal fables are said to have originated with Aesop, a semilegendary Samian slave, but the earliest surviving record of the fables comes fr... Read More
Overview :"And when the other is beside him, he shares his respite from anguish; when he is absent, he likewise shares his longing and being longed fo... Read More
Overview :Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitione... Read More
Overview :This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This ... Read More
Overview :In the Symposium and the Phaedrus, Platopresents an array of speeches about love, but there is almost no conversation directlyexploring that... Read More
Overview :Plato (428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist ... Read More
Overview :The Phaedrus is well-known for the splendid mythical panorama Socrates develops in his second speech, and for its graphic descriptions of er... Read More
Overview :In this award-winning study of the Phaedrus, Charles Griswold focuses on the theme of "self-knowledge." Relying on the principle that form a... Read More
Overview :The Pbaedrus lies at the heart of Plato's work, and the topics it discusses are central to his thought. In its treatment of the topics of th... Read More