A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Φαῖδρος).

1. An Athenian, the son of Pythocles, of the deme Myrrhinus (Plat. Phaedr. p. 244). He was a friend of Plato (D. L. 3.29), by whom he is introduced in the

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Phaedrus and the Convivium.It appears from these that he was a great admirer of Lysias and the other rhetoricians of his age. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 717.)