forte-fievre:

A recurring mistake made by commentators on Plato’s Phaedrus and Aristotle’s Rhetorica is the conflation of the messages found in both texts. While Plato and Aristotle share the same contempt for Sophistic school of oratory, their methodology in studying and demonstrating the nature and purpose of rhetoric differs greatly. Aristotle’s Rhetorica can be understood as technē which reads like a handbook against Sophism while Plato’s Phaedrus, planted in a more idyllic setting surrounded by the resplendency of metaphors and myths, is not a manual guide on the interplay of speeches, texts and words. The dominant method in Phaedrus to improve rhetoric concerns itself with two approaches that function optimally together: dialectic and psychological analysis. In this paper, I will specify the techniques within Platonic theory of rhetoric.

And hit my head against the wall repeatedly.