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The author of Octavia, Tertullian, Nemesianus, Ausonius, St. Paulinus of Nola, Prudentius, the author of the Alcestis Barcinonensis, and the author of the Querolus also appear to have read and imitated Phaedrus, but no author from antiquity mentions him by name other than Martial and Avianus. [97] Whether Juvenal read Phaedrus is uncertain. [98]
Eileen Mary Challans (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983), known by her pen name Mary Renault (/ ˈ r ɛ n oʊ l t / [2]), [1] was a British writer best known for her historical novels set in ancient Greece.
The Phaedrus (/ ˈ f iː d r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος, romanized: Phaidros), written by Plato, is a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, about the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium . [ 1 ]
Phaedrus (/ ˈ f iː d r ə s, ˈ f ɛ d r ə s /), son of Pythocles, of the Myrrhinus deme (Greek: Φαῖδρος Πυθοκλέους Μυῤῥινούσιος, Phaĩdros Puthokléous Murrhinoúsios; c. 444 – 393 BC), was an ancient Athenian aristocrat associated with the inner-circle of the philosopher Socrates.
Phaedrus, a dialogue of Plato; Phaedrus (play), a 3rd-century BCE comedic play by Alexis (poet) Phaedrus, a character in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; A work by Cy Twombly; Phaedrus, Johnathan, a character in the Reckoners novels by Brandon Sanderson.
Lysias is the earliest writer who is known to have composed erōtikoi; it is as representing both rhetoric and a false erōs that he is the object of attack in the Phaedrus. Stylistic differences between the speech and the rest of the Phaedrus have also been taken to suggest that the speech was genuine. [5]
Jean de La Fontaine (UK: / ˌ l æ f ɒ n ˈ t ɛ n,-ˈ t eɪ n /, [1] US: / ˌ l ɑː f ɒ n ˈ t eɪ n, l ə-, ˌ l ɑː f oʊ n ˈ t ɛ n /; [2] [3] French: [ʒɑ̃ d(ə) la fɔ̃tɛn]; 8 July 1621 – 13 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
Cobb, William S., "The Symposium" in The Symposium and the Phaedrus: Plato's Erotic Dialogues, State Univ of New York Pr (1993). ISBN 978-0791416174. Dalby, Andrew (2006), Rediscovering Homer, New York & London: Norton, ISBN 0393057887; Leitao, David D., The Pregnant Male as Myth and Metaphor in Classical Greek Literature, Cambridge Univ Pr (2012).