Other Works

• Phaedrus

  - Recommended translations:
  • The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus, trans. Seth Benardete (University of Chicago Press, 1991, 2009).
  • "Phaedrus," trans. M. Nichols, A. Nehamas, and P. Woodruff in Plato: Complete Works, ed. J. M. Cooper (Hackett, 1997).
   
  Excerpt: Socrates Dear Phaedrus, whither away, and where do you come from? Phaedrus From Lysias, Socrates, the son of Cephalus; and I am going for a walk outside the wall. For I spent a long time there with Lysias, sitting since early morning; and on the… More

Commentary

• Plato’s Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing

  - Burger, Ronna, Plato's Phaedrus: A Defense of a Philosophic Art of Writing, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1980.

• Self-knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus

  - Griswold, Charles L. Jr., Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
  Excerpt: The Phaedrus presents the appearance of a tapestry that has come partially unraveled into a tangled skein of themes and images. The warp and woof are Socrates and Phaedrus, a pair so ill matched that their relationship strikes us as comic. Their… More

• Listening to the Cicadas: A Study of Plato’s Phaedrus

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

• ‘This story isn’t true’: Madness, Reason and Recantation in the Phaedrus

  - Nussbaum, Martha C., "'This story isn't true: Madness, Reason, and Recantation in the Phaedrus," The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 200-34.
  Excerpt: ‘My dear friend Phaedrus’, calls Socrates. ‘Where are you going? And where do you come from”? So begins this self-critical and questioning dialogue. Socrates has just caught sight of this impressive young person, whose name… More

• Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato’s Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis

  - Nichols, Mary P., Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  Excerpt: Any argument that the philosophic pursuits of Plato’s Socrates exemplify an understanding of love and friendship supportive of political life, as I make in this book, must confront the charges against Socrates made by his own political… More

• The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus

  - Bernadete, Seth, The Rhetoric of Morality and Philosophy: Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
  Excerpt: To put side by side an interpretation of one Platonic dialogue with that of another does not make a book; but although Gorgias and Phaedrus are not as matched a pair as Sophist and Statesman are, something can still be said for putting them… More

Multimedia

• Les luttes intérieures de l’âme dans le Phèdre de Platon

  - Jacqueline de Romilly, "Les luttes intérieures de l'âme dans le Phèdre de Platon," Collège de France, 1981.
  Jacqueline de Romilly, the renowed French scholar of Ancient Greek writers (particularly Thucydides), discusses the Phaedrus of Plato in this INF (French national television) clip from 1981.