Comparative mythology corpus

Enchantment Of The Soul By Speech

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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Greek Phaedrus PHAEDRUS / INTRODUCTION. / ON THE DECLINE OF GREEK LITERATURE. / PHAEDRUS; lines 3313-3435 high Socrates says a serious teacher of rhetoric will describe the soul, explain how it acts and is acted upon, classify men and speeches, and explain why one soul is persuaded by one argument and another is not; he criticizes current writers for concealing the nature of the soul. record