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Phaedrus (dialogue)
Overview
The Phaedrus (; 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.
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Philosophers who discussed Phaedrus (dialogue)
- Syrianus
- Anaxagoras
- Marsilio Ficino
- Philo
- Leo Strauss
- Plato
- Parmenides
- Sappho
- Hermias (philosopher)
- Atticus (philosopher)
Related ideas
- Aphrodite
- Republic (Plato)
- Love
- Ion (dialogue)
- Plato
- Rhetoric
- Socrates
- Theory of forms
- Reincarnation
- Robert M. Pirsig
- Soul
- Thomas Mann
- Virginia Woolf
- Zeus
- Harmony
- Western esotericism
- Sophist
- Literary criticism
- Dialectic
- Theaetetus (dialogue)
- Apollo
- Stephanus pagination
- Art
- Divinity
Place in the tradition
Part of Anaxagoras.