Phaedrus
Americannoun
noun
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In the Phaedrus, Plato describes the soul sprouting and growing wings when it beholds something beautiful.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
A fifth traveler was sensed but unseen: Phaedrus, Pirsig’s alter ego, brilliant, uncompromising and obsessed with the search for truth.
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
In the Phaedrus, Plato has Socrates explain how a subject can be isolated then divided into smaller chunks and analyzed until it becomes understandable.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2015
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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