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The Phaedrus also gives us much in the way of explaining how art should be practiced. The discussion of rhetoric, the proper practice of which is found to actually be philosophy, has many similarities with Socrates's role as a "midwife of the soul" in the Theaetetus; the dialectician, as described, is particularly resonant. To practice the art ...
Phaedrus's name appears in his own text [20] and in Martial [21] in the genitive case as Phaedri. It is found in the nominative case, as Phaedrus, in Avianus's letter to Theodosius, and in the titles of three of the fables, [22] possibly added by scribes on the authority of Avianus.
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.
Near the end of the Phaedo, for example, Plato describes the world of Forms as a pristine region of the physical universe located above the surface of the Earth (Phd. 109a–111c). In the Phaedrus the Forms are in a "place beyond heaven" (hyperouranios topos) (Phdr. 247c ff); and in the Republic the sensible world is contrasted with the ...
The earliest surviving version of the tale is in a four-line Latin poem by Phaedrus: [2] Mons parturibat, gemitus immanes ciens, eratque in terris maxima expectatio. At ille murem peperit. Hoc scriptum est tibi, qui, magna cum minaris, extricas nihil. "A mountain was in labour, uttering immense groans, and on earth there was very great expectation.
Phaedrus (/ ˈ f iː d r ə s, ˈ f ɛ d r ə s /; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος; 138 – 70/69 BC [1]) was an Epicurean philosopher. He was the head ( scholarch ) of the Epicurean school in Athens after the death of Zeno of Sidon around 75 BC, until his own death in 70 or 69 BC.
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.
In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates talks about ekphrasis to Phaedrus, saying: "You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting. The painter's products stand before us as though they were alive, but if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence.