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Showing posts with label phaedrus. Show all posts

Friday, March 5, 2010

Socrates; Speech concerning madness


Socrates, in Plato's Phaedrus describes the four types of divine madness; the madness of Prophecy; from Dionysus mystic rites and relief from hardship (Possession and trance); Poetry; Love.