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Phaedrus
Plato · c. 370 BCE · translated by Harold North Fowler
Love, rhetoric, and the soul as a charioteer driving two horses — plus Plato’s famous complaint that writing weakens memory.
23,225 words · 13 pages · about 1 h 46 min of reading
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