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the secret name of a secret blog
behind “the valley below”
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the Phaedrus by Plato

my one rule is (try)
to be honest

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works cited

This is not an academic project but it takes advantage of some academic resources.

The Perseus Digital Library, for which I hereby express my eternal gratitude, provides the Ancient Greek text of Plato’s Phaedrus (originally edited by John Burnet and published by Oxford University Press in 1903), as well as the Greek texts of Plato’s other extant dialogues. I benefit often from use of the Perseus Digital Library’s Greek Word Study Tool. And I occasionally quote entries from the lexicons included in the Study Tool, which are A Greek-English Lexicon (by Liddell and Scott, rev. and aug. by Sir Henry Stuart Jones, ass. by Roderick McKenzie, published by Clarendon Press in 1940) and An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (by Liddell and Scott, published by Clarendon Press in 1889).

English language translations and interpretations are my own. I’ve occasionally consulted the translations of others. Most often I check the vintage translation included in the Perseus Digital Library, which is by Harold N. Fowler and was published by Harvard University Press in 1925. Also the more modern translation by James H. Nichols, Jr., from his book Gorgias and Phaedrus: Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics, published by Cornell University Press in 1998.

other notes

Phaedrus replies are works of fiction. Persons and places and institutions represented therein are wholly fictitious, including the author(s), but especially other ones who are not the author(s).

Replies are poems or poetic fragments exploring the limits and possibilities of their specific medium, much of which lie outside the control of the author(s).

Replies are experimental in nature. They may be read in any order. They may be edited or changed or removed at any time. There is no schedule for posting. Everything on this blog is one hundred percent un-compensated amateur hour. Life or death decisions should not be made on the basis of this blog.

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