Phaedrus: dramatis persona

Abstract

The current paper offers an analysis of one of the characters in platonic dialogues, namely, Phaedrus. In order to do so, the text deals with this character’s main traits, which have been offered by Plato in three of his dialogues, i.e. Protagoras, Symposium and Phaedrus. The chief target of the following lines is to obtain a proper knowledge about the role represented by Phaedrus in the Corpus, which should provide the reader with some key clues about how to read the Symposium, but, specially, the dialogue entitled by his name.

Keywords: Plato; Phaedrus; Symposium; dialectics.