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The MouseionPlatoPhaedrus

PhaedrusΦαῖδρος

Read it with the English beside the Greek More by Plato

Kind of writing: Philosophic Dialogue
Dialect: Attic
Written: 5th–4th c. BC
Length: 19,352 words analysed
Vocabulary: 78% common words
In the library: 1 Greek text, 1 English translation

The texts

Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

Greek textPlatonis Opera, Tomus II: Tetralogia III-IV. Burnet, John, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910.
English translationPlato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1. Fowler, Harold North, translator. Lamb, W.R.M, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.

In The Painted Stoa

Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.

Healing herbs, killing cups and the smoke of the ScythiansDrugs and poisonsThe Greeks had one word for a medicine, a poison and a magic spell: pharmakon.