Phaedrus / Plato ; translated with an introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield.

By:

Plato [author..]

Contributor(s):

Waterfield, Robin, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (lviii, 111 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585486123
9780585486123
9780191589539
0191589535
9786610374892
6610374899

Uniform titles:

Phaedrus. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Phaedrus.DDC classification:

184 22

LOC classification:

B380.A5 W38 2002eb

Other classification:

B502. 232

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; PHAEDRUS; Explanatory Notes; Textual Notes; Index of Names.

Summary: "Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a kind of divine madness that can allow our souls to grow wings and soar to their greatest heights. Then the conversation changes direction and turns to a discussion of rhetoric, which must be based on truth passionately sought, thus allying it to philosophy. The dialogue closes by denigrating the value of the written word in any context, compared to the living teaching of a Socratic philosopher. The shifts of topic and register have given rise to doubts about the unity of the dialogue, doubts which are addressed in the introduction to this volume. Full explanatory notes also elucidate issues throughout the dialogue that might puzzle a modern reader."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (li-lviii) and an index of names.

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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; PHAEDRUS; Explanatory Notes; Textual Notes; Index of Names.

"Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a kind of divine madness that can allow our souls to grow wings and soar to their greatest heights. Then the conversation changes direction and turns to a discussion of rhetoric, which must be based on truth passionately sought, thus allying it to philosophy. The dialogue closes by denigrating the value of the written word in any context, compared to the living teaching of a Socratic philosopher. The shifts of topic and register have given rise to doubts about the unity of the dialogue, doubts which are addressed in the introduction to this volume. Full explanatory notes also elucidate issues throughout the dialogue that might puzzle a modern reader."-- Provided by publisher.

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