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- Author
- James Fraser
- First published
- 1974
- Editions
- 12
- Subjects
- Politics and government, Democracy
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Phaedrus
- Author
- Plato
- Genre
- Socratic dialogue
- Series
- Platonic dialogue
- Image
- Papyrus of Plato Phaedrus.jpg
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- title
- Φαῖδρος
- language of work or name
- Ancient Greek
- characters
- Socrates
- entry in abbreviations table
- Plat. Phaedrus
- Commons category
- Phaedrus (dialogue)
- time period
- ancient history
- publication date
- 0370-00-00
- place of publication
- Ancient Greece
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος, romanized: Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium. Although the dialogue appears to be primarily concerned with the topic of love, the discussion also revolves around the art of rhetoric and how it should be practiced, and dwells on subjects as diverse as metempsychosis (the Greek tradition of reincarnation) and erotic love, and the nature of the human soul shown in the famous chariot allegory.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phaedrus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.