Open Book, S01E02: How to Read Plato's Phaedrus
Channel: Michael Ullyot
Date: 2020-09-28

This episode is about written language, as the Greek philosopher Plato describes it in his dialogue _Phaedrus_.

The Latin proverb I cite is "Verba volant, scripta manent"; and the Greek word that means both 'cure' and 'poison' is _pharmakon_.

The quotation from John Milton is from _Areopagitica_ (1644).

Selections from Plato’s _Phaedrus_ are from Benjamin Jowett’s 1892 translation, as cited in the anthology _Critical Theory Since Plato_, 3rd edition of 2005, edited by Hazard Adams and Leroy Searle.

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