| #313472 in Books | Plato/ Rowe, Christopher (TRN) | 2005-12-27 | 2005-12-27 | Original language:Ancient Greek | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.30 x5.10l,.22 | File type: PDF | 176 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| About love and philosophy, one of Plato's best|By Didaskalon|Ancient literature is the best thing that a person now could read. It refocuses you away from the capitalistic society with no morals and no honor. This society is all about buying and selling things, not that we don't need to buy things or sell, but the emphasis is too much on these things. Honor and dignity is gone.|About the Author|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 the Academy in Athens, the first permanent institution devoted to philosophical research and te
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.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has b...
You easily download any file type for your device.Phaedrus (Penguin Classics) | Plato. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
