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Phaedrus

In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition

By Plato

First written c. 370 BCE

About this book

Jowett’s translation of the Phaedrus, on love and speech: the divine madness of the lover, the soul as a charioteer with two horses, its vision of the Forms beyond the heavens, and the limits of writing.

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Title
Phaedrus: In The Dialogues of Plato, third edition
Translated by
Benjamin Jowett
Publisher
Clarendon Press, Oxford
Year
1892

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Period

Axial Age800 BCE to 200 BCE

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