# Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus

- Identifiant : `socrates.plato_phaedrus`
- Auteur : Plato
- URL canonique : https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedrus/
- Empreinte : `26f0bfba160dceb0e90160ce42a86448168d8ee0a352ce1b05859de7c440515b`

## What you will learn

Compare Socrates’ successive roles as speaker and dialectician, analyze his palinode, and qualify Plato’s criticism of writing.

## Summary

After competing with Lysias, Socrates covers his head to disparage the lover, then invokes his divine sign and delivers a palinode in which desire, recollection, and beauty lead the soul toward intelligible reality. He next moves from performance to standards for knowledgeable speech.

This richness is not intellectual autobiography. Plato gives the character myths, a method of division, and an ideal of living speech. The witness illuminates several images of Socrates while placing them within a late and reflective composition.