Phaedrus
by Plato
A conversation on a summer day outside Athens about love, beauty and the art of speaking well. It moves from a speech about desire to the image of the soul as a charioteer with two horses, and asks what makes writing and rhetoric honest.
- Chapters
- 3
- Narration
- 2.1 hours
- Original language
- Ancient Greek
- Translation
- Benjamin Jowett
Chapters
- 1Part I: Lysias and the Speeches on Love36 min
- 2Part II: The Palinode of Socrates38 min
- 3Part III: Rhetoric, Writing and the Myth of Theuth52 min
Phaedrus is in the public domain. This audiobook is narrated by an AI voice, from the complete text, with nothing abridged. The text follows the narration word by word while you listen.