Phaedrus
Americannoun
noun
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In the Phaedrus, one of Plato’s dialogues, Socrates criticizes written works as being a dead discourse of sorts.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In The Phaedrus, Socrates warned that writing on wax tablets would make people forgetful.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2018
Like the real-life Pirsig, the ghost-like Phaedrus had an IQ of 170, entered a university at 15 and, as a young man, was committed to mental hospitals where he underwent electroconvulsive therapy.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2017
The Symposium, Plato Plato frames the Symposium as a series of speeches about love delivered by ancient Athenian luminaries — Phaedrus, Aristophanes, Socrates and others.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2016
They talked as they wandered idly on and Phaedrus asked, “Is not the place somewhere near here where Boreas is said to have carried off Orithyia from the banks of the Ilissus?”
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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