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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. This new translation is accompanied by an introduction, further reading, and full notes on the text and translation that discuss the structure of the dialogue and elucidate issues that might puzzle the modern reader.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Phaedrus is a philosophic dialogue by Plato which dwells chiefly upon the definition of love, but also on rhetoric and the art of speaking well. Significant for its composition between Plato's foremost works The Republic and Symposeum, this text is more expansive and embracing in its themes - interesting and diverse topics such as metempsychosis, which was Ancient Greece's equivalent of reincarnation, and the principles of erotic love, also appear. As with most of the Platonic dialogues, this text sees Socrates encounter the titular character. In this case, Phaedrus is walking outside Athens' city walls - proposing they rest and talk, the pair relax under trees alongside a stream, and thereafter begins the dialogue. In starting their discussion, they amply quote Lysias, who is one of the sons of Cephalus; the elderly man's whose home is famous as the setting of Plato's dialogue The Republic. Varying between monologues of speeches, and intense dialogues on matters of writing, love, beauty and speech, Phaedrus is considered by modern scholars as being among the best and most insightful of Plato's dialogues.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

“Love is a serious mental disease.”~ Plato, Phaedrus.One of the first and greatest literary works concerning love. Socrates and his friend Phaedrus discuss the different loves that exist between humans. The dialogue includes the famous simile in which the soul is compared to a charioteer (the rational element) driving a black steed (the irrational appetites) and a white steed (the spiritual element). Although ostensibly about the topic of love, the discussion in the dialogue 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.The dialogue consists of a series of three speeches on the topic of love. They encompass discussions of the soul, madness, divine inspiration, and the practice and mastery of art.'Phaedrus' is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works.This edition includes a newly revised text and a lengthy introduction by classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.