Phaedrus Study Guide

Author of ClassicNote and Sources

Taro Kuriyama, author of ClassicNote. Completed on February 15, 2008, copyright held by GradeSaver.

Updated and revised by Adam Kissel March 08, 2008. Copyright held by GradeSaver.

Alfred Geier. Plato's Erotic Thought: The Tree of the Unknown. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002.

Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff. "Introduction" in Phaedrus. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.

Graeme Nicholson. Plato's Phaedrus: The Philosophy of Love. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1999.

Walter J. Ong. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge, 1989.

Plato. Phaedrus. Trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995.

Friedrich Schleiermacher. Introduction to the Dialogues of Plato. Trans. William Dobson. Cambridge: J. & J.J. Deighton, 1836.

Further Reading

Jacques Derrida. "Plato's Pharmacy" in Disseminations. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.

K.J. Dover. Greek Homosexuality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Michel Foucault. The Use of Pleasure. Vol. 2 of The History of Sexuality. New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.

Eric A. Havelock, Preface to Plato. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963.

Friedrich Nietzsche. The Birth of Tragedy. Trans. Douglas Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.