Characters from Phaedrus

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Socrates - This person meets the main character while on a walk outside Athens and entices him to engage in discussion about a speech.

Phaedrus - After listening to a speech by his lover, this character wants to refresh himself by walking and thinking.

Anaxagoras - This person taught a famous person who derived from him the knowledge of rhetoric.

Stesichorus - This person was a poet who wrote about Helen and the Trojan War and was blinded.

Tisias - This person's arguments were used to define the difference between probability and belief...
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