Ferrari, G. R. F., Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of Plato's Phaedrus, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

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This is a book about Plato’s Phaedrus, nothing more; but that is quite a lot. I shall dispense with a long preamble as to its contents. Rather, my way of orienting readers to Plato’s concerns in this dialogue, and to my own in writing about it, will be to take them (in my opening chapter) for an extended tour of the dialogue’s scenic beauties. Like all readers of this work, we shall learn something about love, and something about rhetoric, and will consider how the two are connected. In addition, I shall have much to say about Plato’s use of myth, his writing of philosophic dialogues, and his mode of psychology–topics which the dialogue strikingly exemplifies.

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