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PLATO'S PHAEDRUS The Philosophy of Love Graeme Nicholson IPurdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana Copyright ©1999 by Purdue Research Foundation. All rights reserved. 03 02 01 00 99 5 4 3 2 1 @ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nicholson, Graeme. Plato's Phaedrus : the philosophy of love / Graeme Nicholson. p. em. - (Purdue University Press series in the history of philosophy) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55753-118-8 (alk. paper). - ISBN 1-55753-119-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Plato. Phaedrus. 2. Love. I. Title. II. Series. B380.N53 1998 184-dc21 97-46404 CIP [54.152.77.92] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 01:07 GMT) For Luke I The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold; That is the madman. The lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. ...