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  • Published: 25 August 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141925523
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

Phaedrus




New translation of One of Plato's major dialogues, popular because of its subject-matter: love

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.

  • Published: 25 August 2005
  • ISBN: 9780141925523
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 128

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About the author

Plato

Plato (c.427-347 BC) stands with Socrates and Aristotle as one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West. He founded in Athens the Academy, the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research and teaching, and the prototype of all Western universities. Plato's works available in Penguin Classics are Republic, The Last Days of Socrates, The Laws, Phaedrus, Protagoras and Meno, Timaeus and Critias, Theaetetus, Early Socratic Dialogues, The Symposium and Gorgias.