Plato : Phaedrus: A Translation With Notes, Glossary, Appendices, Interpretive Essay and Introduction (Focus Philosophical Library)

More accessible than most of his dialogues, and with helpful footnotes that often veer into the irrelevant (unless you´re interested in ancient Greek as a language). Unfortunately, neither of these save the content of the dialogue itself from being boring. The majority of it is a discussion of man/boy love, and the last part is a discussion on rhetoric. There is some interesting punning going on, especially when Socrates uses a soul´s budding wings as a metaphor for an erection. Also nicely, the translator goes a long way in explaining the mentality of the ancient Greek. The love discussion is interesting just because you learn a lot about the relationships that older Greek men enjoyed with young men or boys, something I doubt most show more people know about. As for the discussion on rhetoric, Gorgias is much more interesting. show less