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title: "Phaedrus (Oxford World's Classics)"
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# Phaedrus (Oxford World's Classics)

**Brand:** platorobin waterfield
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- **What is this?** Phaedrus (Oxford World's Classics) by platorobin waterfield
- **How much does it cost?** KD 6.50 with free shipping
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Phaedrus (Oxford World's Classics)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Beautiful Reprint of this Classic Work
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2023*

Oxford World's Classics never disappoints with their affordable and high-quality prints. QC on these appears to be higher than comparable options e.g. Penguin Classics. Beautiful cover art and clear, readable text.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Unusable marginal pagination
  

*by E***O on Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2019*

The translation is good, but the book has not been digitalized correctly, so the marginal pagination is not rendered as it is meant to be. Good for the casual reader, but unusable for scholar work.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Eroticism, divine madness, the soul, and rhetoric
  

*by J***L on Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2015*

This dialogue starts with Phaedrus reading a speech by Lysias, which without defining "lover" argues that one should have sex with a non-lover rather than a lover. A reader of dialogues like the Gorgias, Euthyphro and Theaetetus would then expect Socrates to ask Phaedrus what love is, and for the rest of the dialogue to be Phaedrus giving definitions (probably starting with a list of examples of love) and Socrates showing that these definitions do not clearly mark off what love is or give us understanding of love. Instead, Socrates gives two speeches, the second of which is his "palinode", refuting his first speech. The palinode starts, "'False was the tale' that you should gratify a non-lover rather than a lover (supposing you have one), just because a lover is mad and a non-lover is sane. If madness were simply an evil, it would be right, but in fact some of our greatest blessings come from madness, when it is granted to us as a divine gift." Socrates then gives a myth of the soul as a charioteer with two horses. This charioteer has seen something of true beauty in heaven, and seeing beauty on earth reminds it of true beauty. After Socrates' palinode, the rest of the dialogue is about what the true art of rhetoric would be, and ends with Socrates telling a myth about writing involving "Theuth" and "Thamous". In this myth Socrates says that writing can be an aide for the memory but cannot teach. "It will atrophy people's memories. Trust in writing will make them remember things by relying on marks made by others, from outside themselves, not on their own inner resources, and so writing will make the things they have learnt disappear from their minds. Your invention is a potion for jogging the memory, not for remembering."

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