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Phaedrus
Plato · Classical · c. 370 BCE
Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1871)
10 chapters
On the nature of the soul, divine madness, the chariot allegory, and the power and limits of writing.
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Contents
- 1The Walk to the Ilissus
- 2Lysias's Speech: The Non-Lover
- 3Socrates' First Speech: Love as Madness
- 4The Palinode: Divine Madness and the Chariot of the Soul, Part 1
- 5The Palinode: Divine Madness and the Chariot of the Soul, Part 2
- 6The Palinode: Divine Madness and the Chariot of the Soul, Part 3
- 7The Art of Rhetoric, Part 1
- 8The Art of Rhetoric, Part 2
- 9The Art of Rhetoric, Part 3
- 10Writing, Memory, and the Allegory of Theuth
