Strolling beyond the city walls, Socrates and Phaedrus debate love, the soul, and the true art of rhetoric.
Books that mention Phaedrus (6)
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf: “Jacob, who was reading the Phaedrus, heard people vociferating round the lamp-post”
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “In Plato's Phaedrus, the speeches of Lysias the Sophist and of the early Socrates”
The Just City by Jo Walton: “Plato wrote this wonderful poetic dialogue called the Phaedrus in which Socrates makes speeches about love.”
The Charioteer by Mary Renault: “"The spine said The Phaedrus of Plato." ... Lanyon gives Laurie the book at school and Laurie carries and rereads it through his years in the war.”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig: “In the Professor of Philosophy's absence, another Platonic dialogue had been assigned. Its title was Phaedrus, which meant nothing to our Phaedrus since he didn't call himself by that name.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “as Plato disputes at large in his Dialogue de pulchro, Phaedro, Hyppias, and after many sophistical errors confuted, concludes that beauty is a grace in all things,”