• The Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Greek: Φαῖδρος, translit. Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several...
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  • Phaedrus may refer to: Phaedrus (Athenian) (c. 444 BC – 393 BC), an Athenian aristocrat depicted in Plato's dialogues Phaedrus (fabulist) (c. 15 BC – c...
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  • writing point to Phaedrus' interests in mythology and natural science. On the Mysteries, an extant speech of Andocides, names Phaedrus as one of the individuals...
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    Phaedrus. C. J. Fordyce described Herrmann's book simply as "full of surprises", of which the greatest was that Herrmann was "an editor of Phaedrus,...
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  • manners. He had a son named Lysiadas. Phaedrus was succeeded by Patro. Cicero wrote to Atticus requesting Phaedrus' essay On gods (Greek: Περὶ θεῶν). Cicero...
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  • admiration pre-date Aristotle. In Phaedrus, a dialogue authored by Plato, the sage Socrates and his student of rhetoric Phaedrus engage in repartee in an idyllic...
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    [sic] Drury Hesperia aesopus Fabricius, 1781 Hesperia phaedrus Fabricius, 1781 Polyommatus phaedrus (Fabricius) Phaedra terricola Horsfield, [1829] Anops...
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  • past self, who is referred to in the third person as Phaedrus (after Plato's dialogue). Phaedrus, a teacher of creative and technical writing at Montana...
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  • Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing is a book by Ronna Burger, in which Burger provides a philosophical analysis of the Phaedrus by...
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  • Plato distinguishes four kinds of inspiration or "mania" in the dialogue Phaedrus. The word "mania" signifying that a person is caught up in a state transcending...
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    are: Phaedrus (speech begins 178a): an Athenian aristocrat associated with the inner-circle of the philosopher Socrates, familiar from Phaedrus and other...
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    forms of divine madness (drunkenness, eroticism, and dreaming) in the Phaedrus, and yet in the Republic wants to outlaw Homer's great poetry, and laughter...
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    extensive discussion of Plato's Phaedrus and the historical contrast between Dialectic and Rhetoric: "And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good—Need...
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    Roman poet Phaedrus (1st century); the Latin text is itself based on The Frog and the Ox, one of Aesop's Fables. Phaedrus Übersetzungen (Phaedrus translations)...
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    Orpheus's visit to the underworld in a more negative light; according to Phaedrus in Plato's Symposium, the infernal deities only "presented an apparition"...
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  • Julius Phaedrus, titled Prometheus and Guile (Prometheus et Dolus), subtitled On Truth and Falsehood (De ventate et mendacio). In Phaedrus's fable, Prometheus...
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    Nicolaus Damascenus Nonius Marcellus Obsequens Orosius Ovid Petronius Phaedrus Plautus Pliny the Elder Pliny the Younger Pomponius Mela Priscian Propertius...
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  • undecidable." Whereas a straightforward view on Plato's treatment of writing (in Phaedrus) suggests that writing is to be rejected as strictly poisonous to the ability...
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    gives life to the body (which was articulated most of all in the Laws and Phaedrus) in terms of self-motion: to be alive is to be capable of moving yourself;...
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    century AD, Phaedrus (died 50 AD) produced Latin translations in iambic verse of fables then circulating under the name of Aesop. While Phaedrus's Latinizations...
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  • following La Fontaine's version of the fable. The early Latin version of Phaedrus begins with the reflection that "Partnership with the mighty is never trustworthy"...
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  • Cambodian-French artist Rindy Sam after she kissed one panel of Twombly's triptych Phaedrus. The panel, an all-white canvas, was smudged by Sam's red lipstick and...
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    Aeschylus and Phaedrus, for example, state there was a clear relationship between them. Aeschylus refers to Achilles as the erastes, while Phaedrus refers to...
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    126 Latin verse fables by Phaedrus, 328 Greek fables not extant in Babrius, and 128 Latin fables not extant in Phaedrus (including some medieval materials)...
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    three years. Plato mentions Thoth (as Θεὺθ, "Theuth") in his dialogue Phaedrus. He uses the myth of Thoth to demonstrate that writing leads to laziness...
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    the time of Pausanias and Erato was linked again with love in Plato's Phaedrus; nevertheless, even in the third century BC, when Apollonius wrote, the...
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    problematic is the story by Phaedrus, which has Aesop, in Athens, relating the fable of the frogs who asked for a king, because Phaedrus has this happening during...
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    treated Orpheus's visit to the underworld more negatively. According to Phaedrus in Plato's Symposium, the infernal deities only "presented an apparition"...
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  • was a mythical Pharaoh of Upper Egypt, and appears in Plato's dialogue Phaedrus. According to the story told by Socrates in that dialogue, King Thamus...
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    Socrates says that Zeus was in love with Ganymede, called "desire" in Plato's Phaedrus. According to Dictys Cretensis, Ganymede was abducted by the Cretans. In...
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