Plato 428? BCE-348? BCE creator Lehmuskoski, Niilo 1888-1948 text utu 2019 monographic fi 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Phaidros" by Plato is a dialogue written around 370 BC. Socrates and Phaedrus meet outside Athens to discuss a speech about love. Their conversation spirals into deeper questions about rhetoric, the human soul, and divine inspiration. Through three contrasting speeches and the famous chariot allegory, they explore whether it's better to favor a lover or non-lover, while examining what makes persuasive speech truly effective and how desire shapes human nature. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedrus_(dialogue) Release date is 2019-05-04 E-text prepared by Tapio Riikonen Original publication data not identified Socrates, 470 BC-399 BC Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800 Love -- Early works to 1800 Soul -- Early works to 1800 B Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59435 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59435 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134353.0 59435