Plato's Phaedo (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Plato's Phaedo Saturday, August 8 2009.

• The book is written for anyone seriously interested in Plato's thought and in the history of literary theory or of rhetoric. No knowledge of Greek is required. The focus of this account is on how the resources both of persuasive myth and of formal argument, for all that Plato sets them in strong contrast, nevertheless complement and reinforce each other in his philosophy.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Plato's Phaedo Thursday, July 16 2009.

• That the Phaedo is a work of supreme art, perhaps the greatest achievement in Greek prose literature, is something that needs no argument.