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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> This palinode dear Eros has been given and offered in payment to you the most beautiful and the best I am able to make especially considering that it had to be spoken in a somewhat poetic style for Phaedrus’ sake. In forgiveness for my previous words and in gratitude for these be kind and gracious and do not in anger take away or weaken the erotic art [er?tike techn?] that you gave me. Allow me to be held in honor by the beautiful even more than now… (And as for Lysias] turn him toward philosophy… so that his lover here [st. Phaedrus] may no longer be of two minds as he is now but dedicate his life wholly to eros together with philosophical words. (257a3-b6)’ Er?s is also a major theme in the Socratic dialogues-those in which Socrates is protagonist – of many ancient writers other than Plato. Some characterize Socrates’ concern with er?s in a positive way. For example in the Alcibiades of Aeschines Socrates claims to have benefited Alcibiades “by means of eros” (d?? t? ????). In the works of other writers however Socrates’ connection with eros is represented in a very negative fashion. For example Phaedo’s. (LL)