- Early works to 1800, Love, Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric
"Set in the idyllic countryside outside Athens, the Phaedrus is a dialogue between the philosopher Socrates and his young friend Phaedrus, inspired by their reading of a clumsy speech by the writer Lysias about love.
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Intimate, contemplative, character-led and prestige.
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Plato
- First published
- 1792
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com, Independently Published, Echo Library
- Editions
- 138
- Language
- lat, Italian, grc, guj
- ISBN
- 9786050205770
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“Although it is impossible, and likely to remain impossible, to assign a precise date to the composition of the Phaedrus, or even to fix with complete certainty its position in the order of dialogues, there has been an increasing tendency during the present century to consider it a relatively late work.”
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