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Phaedrus

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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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Cicadas in mythology

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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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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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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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Phaedrus the Epicurean

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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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Curetis thetis

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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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Rana rupta et bos

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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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Arete

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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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Plato

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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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Dolus

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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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Divine inspiration

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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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Julius Caesar

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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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Pharmakon

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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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Cy Twombly

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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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Patroclus

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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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Erato

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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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Euhemerism

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described in Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates offers a euhemeristic interpretation of a myth concerning Boreas and Orithyia: Phaedrus: Tell me, Socrates, isn't...

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Aesop

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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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Achilles and Patroclus

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written c. 385 BC, the speaker Phaedrus holds up Achilles and Patroclus as an example of divinely approved lovers. Phaedrus argues that Aeschylus erred in...

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Ekphrasis

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is at a fourth remove In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates talks about ekphrasis to Phaedrus, saying: "You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing...

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Thoth

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reigned for three years. Plato mentions Thoth (as Theuth) in his dialogue Phaedrus. He uses the myth of Thoth to demonstrate that writing leads to laziness...

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