TY  - GEN
T1  - Phaedrus
T2  - Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
A1  - Plato
A2  - Waterfield, Robin, 1952-
LA  - English
LA  - Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
PP  - Oxford ; New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm53972575
AB  - "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."--
OP  - 111
CN  - B380.A5 W38 2002eb
SN  - 0585486123
SN  - 9780585486123
SN  - 9780191589539
SN  - 0191589535
SN  - 9786610374892
SN  - 6610374899
SN  - 0192802771
SN  - 9780192802774
KW  - Love : Early works to 1800.
KW  - Rhetoric : Early works to 1800.
KW  - Amour : Ouvrages avant 1800.
KW  - Rhétorique : Ouvrages avant 1800.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : History & Surveys : Ancient & Classical.
KW  - Rhetoric.
KW  - Love.
KW  - Love
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Early works
ER  -