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
In The Phaedrus, Socrates warned that writing on wax tablets would make people forgetful.
From The Guardian • May 3, 2018
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
Once Socrates, the great Athenian teacher, who lived hundreds of years, thousands, perhaps, after the mythological stories were first told, went on a walk with a young man he was fond of named Phaedrus.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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