Phaedo
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After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an…
Details
- AuthorPlato
- SourceProject Gutenberg #1658
- Length41,932 words
- Chapters3
- DictionaryNot yet generated
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
3 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Translated by Benjamin Jowett
- 02PHAEDO
- 03SCENE: The Prison of Socrates.
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