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were published. 65 The so called “theory of revision”, suggested by H. Thesleff, enables to assume that
some parts of the dialogue (“Lysias’ speech” among them) were written before the Symposium, 66
which fits in with the upshot of the present paper. Of course, this question requires futher
investigation, which we neither can nor intend to undertake within the limited scope of this paper.
65 Hackforth, op.cit., 34.
66 The theory of revision was proposed by Thesleff (Thesleff, H., Studies in Platonic Chronology, Helsinki, 1981, 172) and
endorsed by Y. Shichalin in his edition of the Phaedrus (see note 15) and by A. Usacheva (“Concerning The Date Of Plato’s
Phaedrus”, to be published in Hermathena, 2013). In the same volume, H. Tarrant in his “Final Reflections” singles out
several “stylistic clusters” in the Phaedrus and remarks: “This may owe something to Plato’s conscious changes in linguistic
register, but is better explained in terms of chronology”.
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