This spring, after some 17 years beneath the ground, billions of cicadas announced their return with a cacophony of shrill chirps. Of course, we're not the...

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© Zoë Murdoch - All Rights Reserved. use without permission is illegal! (singing Moonlight Sonata) In Phaedrus, a dialogue authored by Plato, a sagely Socrates and his student of rhetoric Phaedrus, engage in thoughtful repartee in an earthy setting by a lush riverbank in the shade of a tree occupied by a chorus of cicadas. These cicada are not supernumerary; they provide metaphorical richness, a salient musical motif and liminal hierophany to the dialogue of Socrates and Phaedrus. It is in…